Anger management style and hostility among patients with chronic pain: Effects on symptom-specific physiological reactivity during anger- and sadness- recall interviews

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 786-793

  Burns, John W ^a,c   Bruehl, Stephen ^b   Quartana, Phillip J ^a  

^a ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger management style; Chronic pain; Hostility; Symptom specific reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE TONE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANGER; ATTITUDE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TRUST;

EID: 33749034163     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000238211.89198.e4     Document Type: Article

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