Psychological and Behavioral Benefits of a Stress/Type A Behavior Reduction Program for Healthy Middle-Aged Army Officers
| Autor: | Joseph J. Knapik, Cara Thompson, Andrew Litrman, Peter Halperin, Maurizio Fava, Eileen Pratr, Chris Bielenda, Marvin A. Oleshansky, Frederick R. Drews |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Coronary Disease Hostility Developmental psychology Officer Coronary artery disease Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Behavior Therapy Risk Factors Adaptation Psychological Stress (linguistics) medicine Humans Life Style Applied Psychology Depression (differential diagnoses) Type A Personality Type A and Type B personality theory Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Military Personnel Increased risk Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychology Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychosomatics. 32:337-342 |
| ISSN: | 0033-3182 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0033-3182(91)72073-2 |
| Popis: | Twenty army officers who participated in a stress/type A behavior reduction program and a comparison group of 17 officer nonparticipants volunteered to undergo a battery of psychological and behavioral tests before and after the program. Following the program, participants displayed a significantly greater reduction in average daily caloric intake and levels of perceived stress, anxiety, hostility, depression, psychological distress, and type A behavior as compared to the officers who did not participate in it. Given the fact that most of these psychological and behavioral factors have been found in previous studies to be related to an increased risk for coronary artery disease, it seems that the changes reported by the participants in the program are potentially healthful. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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