An unavoidable reciprocal influence characterizes the mother-child dyad. Within this relationship, the presence of depression, somatization, hostility, paranoid ideation, and interpersonal sensitivity symptoms at a subclinical level and their possible input on infant motor competences has not been yet considered. Bearing in mind that motor abilities represent not only an indicator of the infant...

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...

Objective: The current research applied the general aggression model (GAM) to explain the relation between negative societal changes (e.g., indicators of a poor economy) on aggression-related outcomes. One correlational and one experimental study tested the relationships between these variables as well as possible mediating mechanisms. Method: In Study 1 (N 193), participants completed several ...

Hostility is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Because central serotonin may modulate aggression, we might expect selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to be effective in reducing hostility. Such effects have never been examined in individuals scoring high on hostility who are otherwise free from major Axis I psychopathology according to criteria in t...

BACKGROUND Hostility is associated with a significantly increased risk of age-related disease and mortality, yet the pathophysiological mechanisms involved remain unclear. Here we investigated the hypothesis that hostility might impact health by promoting cellular aging. METHODS We tested the relationship between cynical hostility and two known markers of cellular aging, leukocyte telomere le...

Social hostility is seldom expressed overtly. More often than not, individuals try to get their hostile message across without risking violent altercations. However, subtle and relatively covert hostility is not easy to research. We suggest a novel way with the SoMi paradigm, a social decision making task that offers participants the opportunity to be socially mindful or socially hostile by lea...

Shipping, the World's largest industry, consists of sectors and each sector is approaching the IT revolution in different ways for the achievement of competitive advantages. Today the shipping industry has expanded dramatically and it is in the process of harnessing the advancements of Information Technology in providing added value for the business. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a ...