Wstęp Ze względu na znaczenie problemu dla zdrowia publicznego oraz dotychczasowy brak zgodności w opublikowanych badaniach dotyczących typu osobowości, który może wiązać się ze zwiększonym ryzykiem zachorowania nowotwory, zrealizowano badanie, którego celem była ocena częstości podstawowych demograficznych, społecznych i zdrowotnych okoliczności występowania osobowości D jej diagnostycznych sk...

Aims. To examine the association between Type D personality and HbA1c level and to explore the mediating role of medication adherence between them in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods. 330 patients went on to complete a self-report measure of medication adherence and the HbA1c tests. Chi-square test, T test, Ordinary Least Square Regression (OLS), and Recentered Influence F...

BACKGROUND Type D personality is based on two global and stable personality traits, including negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI). The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between type D personality and perceived social support in post myocardial infarction (MI) patients. METHODS One hundred seventy six consecutive patients following MI admitted to the cardiac ca...

Condén, E. 2014. Type D Personality. Psychometric Properties of the DS14 and Associations with Ill Health and Coronary Heart Disease in General and Clinical Populations. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1034. 74 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9052-2. Type D personality, or distressed personality, refers to the jo...

BACKGROUND Type D personality refers to the tendency to experience negative emotions and to inhibit self-expression in social interaction and has been shown to be an independent predictor of mortality in cardiac disease. Information about the effects of psychological traits on prognosis is lacking in cases of peripheral arterial disease (PAD). OBJECTIVE To examine whether type D personality p...

OBJECTIVE Type D personality is a combination of high negative affectivity (NA) and high social inhibition (SI). This trait is related to increased mortality and poor health outcomes in patients with cardiovascular diseases, although it is less well-established if Type D personality also poses an increased risk in healthy populations. A potential underlying pathway could include the metabolic s...

AIMS Little is known about the impact of ICD indication (primary vs. secondary) on health-related quality of life (HRQL). Indication may also interact with psychological factors, such as personality. Using a prospective design, we examined whether ICD indication and type-D personality (i.e. experiencing increased negative emotions paired with emotional non-expression) serve as modulators of HRQ...

OBJECTIVE Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following transplantation is gaining importance as an endpoint, but little is known about the role of normal personality traits as a determinant of HRQoL in this patient group. We investigated whether Type D personality (tendency to experience increased negative emotions paired with the nonexpression of these emotions) was associated with impaire...