In the last few decades, particular attention has been paid to the role of personality specific traits that can affect the loss of health, i.e., Type D personality and Alexithymia. They have been conceptualized in a different period, this means that they are different both for their theoretical positions and their empirical studies. Some authors have speculated that there is a potential concept...

OBJECTIVE Although Type D personality has been associated with the prognosis of various cardiac diseases, few studies have investigated the influence of Type D personality on the cardiac and psychiatric prognoses of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). METHODS Depression, anxiety, and quality of life were measured at baseline and 6 months. The recurrence of AF was measured during 1-year fo...

BACKGROUND The objective was to review all available literature concerning Type D (distressed) personality among the general population and to discuss its implications for research on health status, disease-promoting mechanisms and work-related problems in non-clinical populations. METHODS A computerized search of the literature was performed independently and in duplicate by both investigato...

We examinewhether student personality type helps explain differences in students’ course perceptions across sections that varied only in the usage of cooperative learning. We use theMyers Briggs Type Indicator to classify students based on their preferredways to take in information.We then compare the perceptions of students engaged in cooperative learning with perceptions of students engaged i...

OBJECTIVE Type-D or "distressed" personality and depression following admission for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) have been associated with poor clinical outcome. The biological pathways underpinning this relationship may include disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. We therefore assessed cortisol output in patients who had recently suffered from ACS. METHOD Sali...

OBJECTIVE Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been observed in cardiac patients, but little is known about PTSD in implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients. We examined the prevalence and predictors (clinical variables, personality, and anxiety) of PTSD in ICD patients. METHOD Three hundred ninety-five ICD patients (20.1% female; mean age = 62.8 ± 10.3 years) from two Dutch ...