Psychology 2035A/B Chapter 5: Chapter5
19 Dec 2011
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Stress, personality, and illness: a person"s characteristic demeanor can influence his or her physical health, link between personality and disease is somewhat complex, but nonetheless real. Higher emotional reaction to discrimination: reasons hostility and anger link to heart disease: Greater physiological reactivity in response to stress may cause wear and. Exposure to self-imposed stress may be high because hostility and anger. Hostility may undermine social support from others that might buffer the tear in cardiovascular system lead to interpersonal difficulties effects of stress. Going over the incident heightens negative feelings as well as depression. Most theorists explain that finding out you have a heart disease causes the heart disease depression. Causal relations may flow in the opposite direction: depression roughly doubles one"s chances of developing heart disease, also influences how heart disease progresses, as it is associated with a worse prognosis among cardiology patients.
