Siobhán Howard

TL;DR: Findings provide new evidence on type-D and suggest a role for health-related behavior in explaining the link between type- D and poor clinical prognosis in cardiac patients.

TL;DR: Testing the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, indicates that Type D is more accurately represented as a dimensional rather than categorical construct.

TL;DR: Data is presented showing that neuroticism, a personality trait associated with dispositional appraisals of stress, is associated with reductions in HR, CO, and TPR responses across stress exposures, and comparisons of reactivity curves suggest blunted initial stress responses among persons with high neuroticism.

TL;DR: Examining the Type D personality in terms of two well-established personality traits; introversion and neuroticism, both the construct and concurrent validity of this personality type were confirmed, with discriminant validity evident on examination of physiological indices of well-being.

TL;DR: Results indicated that there were no between-group differences in magnitude of blood pressure increase, with both Type D and non-Type D individuals demonstrating myocardial response profiles, however, Type D individuals were less "myocardial" than non- type D individuals, implicating CVR as a possible mechanism involved in Type D-cardiovascular health associations.