Anger management style moderates effects of emotion suppression during initial stress on pain and cardiovascular responses during subsequent pain-induction

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 154-165

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

^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SPIELBERGER ANGER EXPRESSION INVENTORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD; EMOTIONS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPRESSION;

EID: 35148885737     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02872670     Document Type: Article

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