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Blood pressure and personality.
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Findings were regarded as supporting the hypothesis that there is a psychosomatic component in the aetiology of high blood pressure.About:
This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 102 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Blood pressure & Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.read more
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Health complaints, stress, and distress: exploring the central role of negative affectivity.
David Watson,James W. Pennebaker +1 more
TL;DR: Results demonstrate the importance of including different types of health measures in health psychology research, and indicate that self-report health measures reflect a pervasive mood disposition of negative affectivity (NA), which will act as a general nuisance factor in health research.
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Low-anxious, high-anxious, and repressive coping styles: psychometric patterns and behavioral and physiological responses to stress.
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Symptoms of Psychologic Distress Associated With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Comparison of Community and Medical Clinic Samples
TL;DR: In this paper, women with symptoms indicative of irritable bowel syndrome who had not consulted a physician were compared with female patients at a gastroenterology clinic to investigate whether self-selection for treatment accounts for psychologic abnormalities in clinic patients' with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
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The psychophysiology of confession: Linking inhibitory and psychosomatic processes.
TL;DR: Investigation of the short-term autonomic correlates of disclosing personal and traumatic experiences among two samples of healthy undergraduates found talking about traumatic events was associated with decreased behavioral inhibition, as measured by lower skin conductance levels among high disclosers.
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Variation in arterial pressure throughout the day and night.
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The nature of essential hypertension
TL;DR: When Hamilton, Pickering, Fraser Roberts and Sowry published their four papers in 1954, the author accepted for several years their theory of the continuous distribution of hypertension with the corollary that what the authors call essential hypertension is no more than the tail end of a distribution curve.
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Follow-up Study of Arterial Pressure in the Population of a Welsh Mining Valley.
TL;DR: One of the objects of this address has been to outline some of the tools and methods of modern research in psychiatry, which in the last twenty-five years have increased immeasurably the possibilities for progress.