@article{636,
  keywords = {Defensive Hostility, Cardiovascular Reactivity, Stress},
  author = {Francesc Palmero and Alicia Breva and Óscar Landeta},
  title = {Defensive hostility and cardiovascular reactivity in a real-life stressful situation},
  abstract = {Cardiovascular reactivity is considered as a risk factor in the aetiology of cardiovascular diseases. Previous research has showed a relationship between psychological factors, such as hostility, and an excessive cardiac reactivity. However, recent research has showed inconsistent results, suggesting a multidimensional nature of Hostility as a possible explanatory cause of this lack of consistence. As a consequence, a new dimension of hostility, defensive hostility, has been proposed in order to explain the relationship between hostility and psychophysiological response. In this study, we examined the combined effects of hostility and defensiveness in order to predict cardiovascular reactivity. Undergraduate students had to cope with a real stressing event while heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure were recorded. Participants fulfilled different psychological test (Cook-Medley Hostility Inventory and Marlowe-Crown Social Desirability Questionnaire). Results showed that high hostility and high social desirability people present a higher cardiovascular reactivity. These results are interpreted as suggesting a higher accuracy of defensive hostility to predict cardiovascular activity.},
  year = {2002},
  journal = {Ansiedad y Estrés},
  volume = {8},
  number = {2-3},
  pages = {115-142},
  month = {07/2002},
  publisher = {Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés},
  issn = {1134-7937},
  isbn = {2174-0437},
}