Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to an ecologically valid multitasking stressor.

Kelly-Hughes, Denise, Wetherell, Mark and Smith, Michael (2014) Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to an ecologically valid multitasking stressor. Psychology & Health, 29 (10). pp. 1156-1175. ISSN 1476-8321

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2014.915970

Abstract

Previous research investigating the influence of Type D personality on cardiovascular reactivity to stress in healthy young adults is somewhat mixed. The present study sought to investigate this question using an ecologically valid laboratory stressor. Beat-to-beat blood pressure and heart rate were measured in 77 healthy young adults during exposure to multitasking stress. Mood and background stress were both associated with Type D personality when Type D was conceptualised as a dimensional construct, with less robust findings observed using the traditional dichotomous typological approach. However, the continuous Type D construct added limited predictive value of the self-report measures above that of its constituent components, negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI). Further, an inverse relationship between the continuous Type D construct and blood pressure reactivity to multitasking stress was observed. In summary, our findings suggest that Type D personality is predictive of blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress in healthy individuals when Type D is considered as a dimensional construct and the independent influence of NA and SI is controlled for. Further, our findings suggest that Type D does not predict additional variance in mood and background stress above that of NA and SI when these constituent factors are considered independently.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Published online before print.
Uncontrolled Keywords: blood pressure, heart rate, mood, personality, stress
Subjects: C800 Psychology
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2014 12:24
Last Modified: 17 Dec 2023 16:16
URI: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/16179

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