Personality, Elevated Blood Pressure, and Essential Hypertension

Ernest H. JohnsonW. Doyle GentryStevo Julius

• Contributors. Preface. Part I: Personality Factors in Blood Pressure and Hypertension Research 1. Assessment of the Experience, Expression, and Control of Anger in Hypertension Research Ernest H. Johnson and Charles D. Spielberger 2. The Interview Method for Assessing Anger: Development and Validation Ernest H. Johnson and Anthony F. Greene 3. Anxiety, Neuroticism, Depression, and Hypertension D. G. Byrne 4. Type A Behavior Pattern and Cardiovascular Reactivity: Is There a Relationship with Hypertension? Ray H. Rosenman 5. A Contextual Perspective on Anger with Relevance to Blood Pressure Raymond W. Novaco Part II: Blood Pressure Reactivity to Mental and Emotional Stress 6. Cardiovascular Reactivity to Everyday Events Lawrence F. Van Egeren and Marc D. Gellman 7. Does Cardiovascular Reactivity Have Pathogenic Significance in Hypertensive Patients? Thomas G. Pickering and William Gerin 8. The Stress Interview in Hypertension Research Mark A. Slater, Amy B. Good and Joel Dimsdale 9. A Contextual Model for Research of Race Differences in Autonomic Reactivity Norman B. Anderson, Maya McNeilly and Hector F. Myers Part III: Pathophysiological Mechanisms Linking Personality and Blood Pressure 10. Relationship Between the Sympathetic Tone and Cardiovascular Responsiveness in the Course of Hypertension in the Course of Hypertension Stevo Julius 11. Vascular Reactivity, Sympathetic Tone, and Stress Brent M. Egan 12. Insulin: A Determinant of Blood Pressure? Jay S. Skyler, Richard P. Donahue, Jennifer B. Marks, Novelette E. Thompson and Neil Schneiderman 13. Methodological Issues in Studies of Obesity, Psychosocial Factors, and Hypertension Shiriki Kumanyika and Lucile L. Adams-Campbell 14. In Search of an Optimal Behavioral Treatment for Hypertension: A Review and Focus on Transcendental Meditation Robert H. Schneider, Charles N. Alexander and Robert Keith Wallace Part IV: Future Directions 15. Personality, Elevated Blood Pressure, and Essential Hypertension: A Research Agenda Ernest H. Johnson and W. Doyle Gentry. Index.