Emotion suppression affects cardiovascular responses to initial and subsequent laboratory stressors

British Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 511-528

  Quartana, Phillip J ^a   Burns, John W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955371724     PISSN: 1359107X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135910709X474613     Document Type: Article

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