Key result
Personality traits such as anger, aggression, and hostility are risk factors for coronary heart disease, and behavior therapy can change CHD-prone behavior to decrease the risk of dying from CHD.
Why the study?
Does behaviour therapy reduce the risk of dying from CHD in individuals with CHD-prone behaviour?
Does behaviour therapy reduce the risk of dying from CHD in individuals with CHD-prone behaviour?
Anger, aggression, and hostility are personality risk factors for CHD, and modifying these behaviors through therapy may reduce CHD mortality.
May warrant considering behavior therapy for hostile CHD patients; leaves open survival benefit pending randomized confirmation.
The pioneering work of the authors of the Type A personality concept has now been shown to be seriously flawed, with only the traits of anger, aggression, and hostility remaining as risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD). There is now evidence for a much stronger relationship between CHD and personality involving a rather different set of concepts and theories. The evidence for such a relationship is summarized, and a causal link suggested. It is also shown that the CHD‐prone type of behaviour can be changed by behaviour therapy, decreasing considerably the risk of dying from CHD.
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H. J. Eysenck (1991) conducted a review in Coronary heart disease. Personality traits (anger, aggression, hostility) and behavior therapy was evaluated on Coronary heart disease risk and mortality. Personality traits such as anger, aggression, and hostility are risk factors for coronary heart disease, and behavior therapy can change CHD-prone behavior to decrease the risk of dying from CHD.
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