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Spirituality Predicts Health and Cardiovascular Responses to Stress in Young Adult Women
The primary focus of this study was to investigate the roles of spirituality and religiosity in self-reported physical health, and to determine whether there is an association between an individual’s spiritual...
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The Unique Effects of Forgiveness on Health: An Exploration of Pathways
The relationship of forgiveness, both state and trait, to health was assessed. Eighty-one community adults completed a packet of questionnaires and participated in a laboratory interview about a time of hurt o...
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A Change of Heart: Cardiovascular Correlates of Forgiveness in Response to Interpersonal Conflict
This study sought to examine the psychophysiological correlates of forgiveness in response to interpersonal conflict. One hundred eight college students (44 males and 64 females) participated in two interviews...
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Theobiology: An Analysis of Spirituality, Cardiovascular Responses, Stress, Mood, and Physical Health
The relationships of spirituality and religion to acute cardiovascular responses, physical symptoms of illness, stress and psychological mood were assessed in a community sample of adults. Nineteen men and 61 ...
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Differential hostility profiles accompany different hemodynamic response patterns
Cardiovascular reactivity has been proposed as a mechanism by which psychosocial variables may lead to coronary heart disease. Although reactivity as a generalized response has been linked to psychological fac...
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Type A Behavior and Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivational Orientation in Male College Students
This study attempts to integrate the conceptualization of the Type A behavior pattern with the research on intrinsic motivation. The hypothesis is proposed that Type A behaviors, such as the tendency to compet...
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Family history of hypertension, gender, and cardiovascular responsivity during stress
The relationships of family history of hypertension and gender to cardiovascular responses to stress were investigated in this research. One hundred twenty-three subjects were monitored while they rested and p...
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The relationship of physiological responses to the coronary-prone behavior pattern in children
Forty-one male and female children were tested for Type A (coronary-prone) behavior using the Bortner test and the MYTH questionnaire. Based on their classification as A or B, three physiological variables wer...
