Key result
Type D personality and Type A impatience-irritability explain ~50% of variance in psychosomatic manifestations.
Why the study?
TABP and Type D personality contribute to cardiovascular disease onset, course, and outcomes, but their interrelationship and predictive role for psychosomatic manifestations required examination.
Cross-Sectional (n=212)
Type D personality, particularly negative affectivity, is a stronger predictor of psychosomatic manifestations than Type A behavior pattern in healthy volunteers.
Type D traits may flag psychosomatic vulnerability in healthy adults; leaves open causal inference and clinical utility pending prospective data.
The Type A Behavior Pattern (TABP) and Type D personality (Type D) are constructs primarily related to cardiac patients as they may contribute to the onset, course, and outcome of cardiovascular diseases, but their association with other adverse health outcomes is also noticeable. The aim of this study was to examine the interrelationship between TABP and Type D, as well as their predictive role for general proneness to psychosomatic manifestations. A cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted among 212 healthy volunteers. The correlation analyses showed that there was an association between Impatience-Irritability and Negative affectivity (r = .191**) as components of TABP and Type D, respectively. Furthermore, it was found that both TABP and Type D have a significant percentage of the cumulative variance in the proneness to psychosomatic manifestations, with Type D proving to be a stronger predictor than TABP. Impatience-Irritability ( = .17**), Negative affectivity ( = .56***), and Social inhibition ( =.17**) were distinguished as significant predictors for suggesting an association between negative emotions as components of these constructs and psychosomatic manifestations.
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Panić et al. (2019) conducted a cross-sectional in Healthy volunteers (n=212). Type A Behavior Pattern and Type D personality was evaluated on Proneness to psychosomatic manifestations (cumulative variance explained) (R2 0.502, p=<0.001). Type D personality and the Impatience-Irritability component of Type A Behavior Pattern significantly predicted proneness to psychosomatic manifestations, accounting for 50.2% of the variance.
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