OBJECTIVE This study investigated the association between hostility and health and whether it is moderated by the quality of an individual's primary romantic relationship. METHOD Longitudinal data were provided by 184 African Americans, including 166 women. Participants averaged 38 years old and were married or in long-term marriagelike relationships. Hostility and relationship quality were m...

BACKGROUND Majority of studies on personality and physical health have focused on one or two isolated personality traits. We aim to test the independent association of 10 personality traits, from three major conceptual models, with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the French GAZEL cohort. METHODS A total of 14,445 participants, aged 39-54 in 1993, completed the personality questionna...

OBJECTIVE Several studies have shown that hostility, as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-derived Cook-Medley Hostility Scale (Ho), is positively associated with several cardiovascular risk factors, possibly accounting for the relationship between Ho scores and cardiovascular mortality. This study was undertaken to examine associations between hostility and cardiovascu...

Disparagement humor refers to communication that derogates or denigrates a certain target but elicits amusement. Blending two contradictory elements in terms of social approvability, the paradox disparagement has sparked three major questions: how does amusement arise from disparagement? What determines whether an attempt at is perceived be funny offensive? are unique aftereffects this...

It has long been known that lower socioeconomic status (SES) is a potent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.1 Much effort has been devoted to identifying the mechanisms responsible for this risk, because knowledge of these mechanisms is essential to guide the development of interventions to prevent or ameliorate the health-damaging effects. By showing that increased systolic blood pressure ...

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data suggest that global negative affect (NA) increases prior to and decreases following episodes of binge eating and purging, providing support for the affect regulation model of BN. The current study examined whether facets of NA are differentially related to bulimic behaviors. Women with bulimia nervosa (BN; n = 133) completed a 2-week EMA protocol. Mome...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether psychological constructs of hostility, anger, type A behavior pattern, and depressive symptom severity 1) were associated with concurrent and prospective fasting glucose levels and 2) whether this association was moderated by marital status. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Participants were 485 healthy men ([mean +/- SD] age 59 +/- 7 years) without a history of heart d...

OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that emotional stress can trigger acute coronary syndromes in patients with advanced coronary artery disease (CAD), although the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Hostility is associated with heightened reactivity to stress in healthy individuals, and with an elevated risk of adverse cardiac events in CAD patients. This study set out to test whether hostile individ...