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Psychological perspectives on the type A behavior pattern.

Karen A. Matthews
- 01 Mar 1982 - 
- Vol. 91, Iss: 2, pp 293-323
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1982-03-01. It has received 638 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychodynamics & Type A and Type B personality theory.

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Assessing Coping Strategies: A Theoretically Based Approach

TL;DR: A multidimensional coping inventory to assess the different ways in which people respond to stress was developed and an initial examination of associations between dispositional and situational coping tendencies was allowed.
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Health complaints, stress, and distress: exploring the central role of negative affectivity.

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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Coronary heart disease. Clinical, cinearteriographic and metabolic correlations.

TL;DR: The various methods and concepts within health psychology that have been applied to further understanding of the factors that contribute to CHD and the various prevention and intervention strategies used to reduce the risk of CHD morbidity and mortality are illustrated.
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Coping with stress during childhood and adolescence.

TL;DR: Research on how children and adolescents cope with stress and coping's role in reducing the adverse psychological states associated with stress is reviewed and conclusions drawn, the major issues facing the field, and directions for future research are outlined.
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A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

Leon Festinger
- 01 May 1954 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that there is a strong functional tie between opinions and abilities in humans and that the ability evaluation of an individual can be expressed as a comparison of the performance of a particular ability with other abilities.
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Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents

TL;DR: The findings show that people who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die in the follow-up period than those with more extensive contacts.
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Public and private self-consciousness: Assessment and theory.

TL;DR: Buss and Scheier as mentioned in this paper constructed a scale to assess individual differences in self-consciou sness and found that self-consciousness has three components: public, private, and social anxiety.