The relationship of coronary-prone behavior pattern to the health of college students at varying levels of recent life change
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchPublished 1 January 1981
Grant W. Somes, Thomas F. Garrity, Martin B. Marx
Citations21
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.31
SNIP1.10
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
Extreme Type A subjects as a group showed no association between recent life changes and illness whereas there was a significant association in subjects without this pattern, and the introduction of sex as a control variable does not alter these relationships.
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship of coronary-prone behavior pattern, magnitude of recent life change and subsequently reported illnesses in a sample of 145 healthy young adults. Subjects with extreme Type A behavior pattern reported significantly more life changes in the previous year than did other subjects but they reported no more illness in the subsequent surveillance period. Extreme Type A subjects as a group showed no association between recent life changes and illness whereas there was a significant association in subjects without this pattern. The introduction of sex as a control variable does not alter these relationships except for extreme Type A females in whom the magnitude of life change is negatively and significantly correlated with reported illness.
Keywords
PsychologySocial SciencesMedicine
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchThe social readjustment rating scale
11,022 Citations1967Thomas H. Holmes, Richard H. Rahe
This report defines a method which achieves etiologic significance as a necessary but not sufficient cause of illness and accounts in part for the time of onset of disease and provides a quantitative basis for new epidemiological studies of diseases.
Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyStressful life events, personality, and health: An inquiry into hardiness.
3,180 Citations1979Suzanne C. Kobasa
American Journal of EpidemiologyTHE RELATIONSHIP OF PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS TO CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY. III. EIGHT-YEAR INCIDENCE OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE
917 Citations1980Suzanne Haynes, Manning Feinleib +1 more
It is suggested that Type A behavior and suppressed hostility may be involved in the pathogenesis of CHD in both men and women.
The Journal of Nervous and Mental DiseaseBehavior Patterns, Stress, and Coronary Disease
543 Citations1978James J. Lynch
Social Science & Medicine (1967)Illness and the feminine role: A theoretical review
513 Citations1975Constance A. Nathanson
Three explanatory models to account for sex differences in illness experience are considered and it is concluded that a model looking at illness behavior as a function of the number and character of other role obligations offers the most promise for future research.
The Interview Method of Assessment of the Coronary-Prone Behavior Pattern
477 Citations1978Ray H. Rosenman
The American Journal of CardiologyMultivariate prediction of coronary heart disease during 8.5 year follow-up in the western collaborative group study
438 Citations1976Ray H. Rosenman, Richard Brand +2 more
Type A behavior pattern was strongly related to the incidence of coronary disease in both age groups, independent of interrelations of behavior patterns with any other risk factor.
Archives of General PsychiatrySocial Status and Psychological Disorder: A Causal Inquiry.
420 Citations1970Elizabeth M. Tucker
American Sociological ReviewSexual Status and Psychiatric Symptoms
294 Citations1969Derek L. Phillips, Bernard E. Segal
Analysis of data collected from a sample of 278 adults in 1965 and 1966 provides strong support for the hypothesis that women will report more psychiatric symptoms than will men with an equal number of physical illnesses.
American Journal of EpidemiologyTHE RELATIONSHIP OF PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS TO CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY
259 Citations1978Suzanne Haynes, Manning Feinleib +3 more
In a cross-sectional study of 1822 persons, the association of 20 psychosocial scales with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevalence was assessed and four hypotheses are suggested for future prospective work in this area.
Journal of Health and Social BehaviorThe 22-Item Scale Used In Field Studies of Mental Illness: A Question of Method, a Question of Substance, and a Question of Theory
153 Citations1973Lauren H. Seiler
The 22-item scale developed through the Midtown Manhattan Study is concluded that the instrument is, at best, a very incomplete measure of mental illness.
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchThe influence of recent life experience on the health of college freshmen
108 Citations1975Martin B. Marx, Thomas F. Garrity +1 more
College campuses appear to be natural laboratories in which to develop incidence rates and identify potentially causal factors and preventive programs may be developed and evaluated.
Journal of Human StressThe Type A Experience: Occupational and Life Demands, Satisfaction and Well-Being
86 Citations1980Ronald J. Burke, Tamara Weir
Exploratory analyses relating Type A behavior to emotional and physical health did confirm previous findings when the older half of the sample was examined, and the latter findings highlight the resistance to behavior change by Type A men.
Coronary-Prone Behavior as an Independent Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease
62 Citations1978Richard Brand
In this phase of epidemiological research, there is little formal research to demonstrate that Type A’s can be changed to Type B's, and there is even less evidence to show that altering Type A behavior will in turn reduce the incidence of recurrence of coronary disease.
Archives of General PsychiatryA Model for Life Changes and Illness Research
62 Citations1974CDR Richard H. Rahe
A life stress and illness model was drawn from studies of recent life changes data and near-future illness reports of a group of Norwegian Navy enlisted men and indicates that the fewer the intervening variables and the less the time interval between subjects' recentlife changes and their near- future illness symptoms, the higher is the correlation between these two parameters.
Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchLife events, psychological distress and the type a coronary-prone behavior pattern
59 Citations1979Jerry Suls, John W. Gastorf +1 more
Life events seen as undesirable, unexpected, and ambiguous in terms of perceived control were positively correlated with increased distress for Type A's, while Type B's were less distressed the more the event was perceived to be beyond their control.
Psychosomatic MedicineEmotional Correlates of Type A Behavior Pattern
45 Citations1978Joel E. Dimsdale, Thomas P. Hackett +2 more
Journal of Human StressA Case-Control Study of Hypertensive Women in a Post-Disaster Community: Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania
41 Citations1980James N. Logue, Peter H. Hansen +1 more
Two mental health dimensions--somatization and anxiety--and the respondent's perceived effect of the flood on health assessed at the time of the survey also demonstrated significant positive correlations with hypertension.
Journal of Behavioral MedicineThe relationship between perceived challenge and daily symptom reporting in Type A vs. Type B postinfarct subjects
26 Citations1980Ronald P. Schlegel, J. K. Wellwood +3 more
Results indicate that Type A postinfarct patients did not suppress fatigue relative to Type B's during the bicycle ergometer exercise, however, Type A's who scored high on perceived challenge during the course of daily living did report fewer symptoms than Type B’s.