PERSONALITY TYPE, SMOKING HABIT AND THEIR INTERACTION AS PREDICTORS OF CANCER AND CORONARY HEART-DISEASE (Publication with Expression of Concern. See vol. 159, 2020)
PERSONALITY TYPE, SMOKING HABIT AND THEIR INTERACTION AS PREDICTORS OF CANCER AND CORONARY HEART-DISEASE (Publication with Expression of Concern. See vol. 159, 2020)
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DOI:
10.1016/0191-8869(88)90125-0
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发表时间:
1988-01-01
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
VETTER, H
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作者:
GROSSARTHMATICEK, R;EYSENCK, HJ;VETTER, H
In the first paper of this symposium, it was concluded that the evidence was strong concerning the relationship between individual traits of personality, such as hopelessness/helplessness, neuroticism and its obverse, namely rational-antiemotional behaviour, and anger/arousal on the one hand, and diseases like cancer and coronary heart disease, on the other. It was also suggested that a more global concept of personality type, either cancer-prone or coronary heart disease-prone, might be even more predictive than a simple combination of the traits in question. Such an attempt is described here, giving much greater detail about the nature of the types in question than. was contained in previous accounts (Eysenck, 1987a, 1987b; Grossarth-Maticek, 1986). This system of typology does not claim universal validity, but is specifically geared to the prediction of cancer and cardiovascular disease in people who experience certain types of stress and react in certain ways to this stress. As a consequence, it is specifically the occurrence of this stress, and the particular reaction of the different types to this stress, which are important. A brief description of the four types will first be given, followed by the actual questionnaire used in the three prospective studies here reported. The stress which forms the basis of the system arises from the individual’s failure to relate positively to an emotionally highly important object, which could be a person, specific professional success, or a particular aspect of living.