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PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
Volume 131, Issue 2, Pages 260-300Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0033-2909.131.2.260
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hostility; depression; anxiety; cardiac disease; health psychology
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Several recent reviews (e.g., L. C. Gallo & K. Matthews, 2003; A. Rozanski, J. A. Blumenthal, & J. Kaplan, 1999; R. Rugulies, 2002) have identified 3 affective dispositions-depression, anxiety, and anger-hostility-as putative risk factors for coronary heart disease. There are, however, mixed and negative results. Following a critical summary of epidemiological findings, the present article discusses the construct and measurement overlap among the 3 negative affects. Recognition of the overlap necessitates the development of more complex affect-disease models and has implications for the interpretation of prior studies, statistical analyses, prevention, and intervention in health psychology and behavioral medicine. The overlap among the 3 negative dispositions also leaves open the possibility that a general disposition toward negative affectivity may be more important for disease risk than any specific negative affect.
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