Assessing alexithymia and type A behavior in coronary heart disease patients: A multimethod approach

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 186-192

  Beresnevaité, Margarita ^a   Taylor, Graeme J ^b   Bagby, R Michael ^b  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Coronary heart disease; Diagnostic criteria for psychosomatic research; Hostility; Time urgency; Type A behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 34147209711     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000099846     Document Type: Article

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