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PSY 230: Lecture 12: Health Related Aspects of Personality Supplement

Articles on Line:

Hostility related to Health Problems

• Hostility, Anger Linked To Chemical That May Cause Heart Disease at http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/units/research/archive/hostchd.htm

• Workplace Bullying, U.S.A. Research 2000 at http://www.workdoctor.com/home/twd/employers/res/surv2000.html

• Study links hostility in young adults with heart disease at http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/05/16/angry.heart/

• Angry Young Adults Show Early Signs of Heart Disease at http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1728.57568

• Research links mental stress, more deaths from heart disease at http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/09/heart.stress/

• Feeling it in your heart at http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/heart/9906/28/feelings.heart/

• Hostility Hurts the Healthy Heart at http://researchmag.asu.edu/articles/hostile.html

• Heart Disease Prevention Program at http://www.uci.edu/~heart

• Hostility at  http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/Research/Psychosocial/notebook/hostility.html

• Hostility, Depression and Heart Disease at http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/Column.asp?Id=195

• Hostility and Heart Disease at http://www.cpsych.org.uk/VE/hostility.htm

Stress and Health Problems

• What Are the Negative Effects of Stress? at http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1680.51974

• The Medical Basis of Stress, Depression, Anxiety, Sleep Problems and Drug Use at http://www.teachhealth.com/

• Stress deadly for some heart patients  at http://www.msnbc.com/news/729353.asp?0si=-

• America's #1 Health Problem at http://www.stress.org/problem.htm

• Mind Tools - Stress management techniques at http://www.mindtools.com/smpage.html

• Stress Management About.com at http://stress.about.com/

• Stress Inc., The Commerce of Coping at http://stress.jrn.columbia.edu/

• Links to Stress Related Resources at http://www.imt.net/~randolfi/StressLinks.html

• How To Fight & Conquer Stress at http://www.coolware.com/health/medical_reporter/stress.html

• Stress and the Immune System at http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~hanko/Bio/stress.html

• Talk About Stress at http://www.talkaboutstress.com/index.php

• Stress at http://www.reutershealth.com/wellconnected/doc31.html

• Stress Management =Resources for Therapists from e-help.com at http://www.e-help.com/stress_management.htm

General Health Sources

• The Health Library — Online Health Videos from Stanford University at http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/videos.html

• Learning Meditation at http://www.learningmeditation.com/

Articles on file for discussion

• Application of self-control procedures to modifying Type A behavior. Keiko Nakano. The Psychological Record, Fall 1996 v46 n4 p595(12)
• Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study. Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe; Mark Woodward; Roger Tavendale; Richard A'Brook; Mary K. McCluskey. British Medical Journal, Sept 20, 1997 v315 n7110 p722(8)
• Hearts and minds, part 1. Harvard Mental Health Letter, July 1997 v14 n1 p1(4)
• Is There a Connection Between Car Accidents, Near Accidents, and Type A Drivers? Lena Karlberg; Anna-Lena Unden; Stig Elofsson; Ingvar Krakau. Behavioral Medicine, Fall 1998 v24 i3 p99(1)
• Meditation for type A's: even the restless can chill out with this new spin on an ancient practice. Janis Graham. Women's Sports and Fitness, June 1997 v19 n5 p76(2)
• Negative emotions and coronary heart disease: getting to the heart of the matter. (Commentary) F. Lesperance; N. Frasure-Smith. The Lancet, Feb 17, 1996 v347 n8999 p414(2)
• On the role of upholstery in cardiovascular physiology. Robert Sapolsky. Discover, Nov 1997 v18 n11 p58(4)
• Personality as a predictor of mortality in heart disease. (adapted from the Lancet 1996;347;417-21) American Family Physician, Sept 1, 1996 v54 n3 p1062(1)
• Psychosocial factors in the etiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease: systematic review of prospective cohort studies. Harry Hemingway; Michael Marmot. The Western Journal of Medicine, Nov 1999 p342
• The temper-tantruming physician. Wayne M. Sotile; Mary Owen Sotile. Physician Executive, August 1996 v22 n8 p30(3)
• Type A/B behavior pattern and athletic participation: attitudes and actual behavior. Nathalie Koivula; Peter Hassmen. Journal of Sport Behavior, June 1998 v21 n2 p148(19)
• Type-A people find it hard to just be. (type-A personalities find relaxing difficult) Jeannette Batz. National Catholic Reporter, April 17, 1998 v34 n24 p17(1)
• The relationship between Type A parenting and adolescent perceptions of family environment. Deborah Kirby Forgays. Adolescence, Winter 1996 v31 n124 p841(22)

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