Key result
Hostility was negatively correlated with total cholesterol, and feelings of guilt were negatively correlated with systolic blood pressure in women, with no link between Type A behavior and cholesterol.
Why the study?
The continuing presence of different negative emotions has been suggested as an important factor in the development of coronary heart disease, but their associations with behavior and traditional risk factors remain unclear.
Cross-Sectional
No
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This study found no expected positive correlations between Type A behavior or negative emotions and traditional CHD risk factors, challenging earlier assumptions about these behavioral links.
The continuing presence of different negative emotions has been suggested as an important factor in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). The present study was carried out at a medical center to investigate the presence of negative emotions and Type A behavior in a group of 40-yr.-old men and women. The National Institute of Public Health in Norway carried out the data-collection as a part of their CHD risk factor screenings. The correlation between hostility and total cholesterol is negative as is that between systolic blood pressures and the feeling of guilt for women. There was no further support for earlier findings of relationships between either Type A behavior pattern and negative emotions or Type A and elevated cholesterol values. A number of possible explanations are offered. In the study, assessment of hostility was questioned; there was possible support for poor assessment of hostility on the Karolinska Scales of Personality employed in the study.
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Espnes et al. (1999) conducted a cross-sectional in Coronary Heart Disease risk factors. Negative emotions and Type A behavior was evaluated on Correlation between hostility/Type A behavior and traditional CHD risk factors. Hostility was negatively correlated with total cholesterol, and feelings of guilt were negatively correlated with systolic blood pressure in women, with no link between Type A behavior and cholesterol.
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