HLTC22H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Alcohol Tolerance, Explanatory Style, Heart Failure
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Hostility: type a personality is also known as type a behaviour pattern (tabp), there are two primary ways of assessing tabp. People high in hostility tend to have poorer health behavior habits. They are more likely to smoke, to drink excessively to weigh more, and to be less active. ways. Anxiety: there are several different anxiety such as phobias, self-report anxiety, and worries, emotional distress, especially anxiety, is associated with a release of catecholamine, which stimulates the heart rate. Individuals high in anxiety may show significant arrhythmias under stress, leading to arrest and sudden death: relatively consistent effects of anxiety on heart disease and overall mortality have been found. Control and self-efficacy health: many early studies showed the protective effect of control could have positive effect on, control can be a double-edged sword. Most control is rather illusory, and when that sense of control is shattered, people may give up, sometimes with quite devastating consequences.
