ANGER AND AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE

愤怒、敌意和愤怒的应对方式被认为是可能的 高血压和冠心病的危险因素。实验室 研究还发现，心血管高反应性和 测量愤怒和愤怒应对方式。动态血压 监测已经被用来识别对现实生活的心血管反应 情况。 这个项目提供了一个机会来评估 纽约市交通执法人员用来管理现实生活的应对方式 人际冲突和动态血压。交通代理是 经常与愤怒的公众对峙 收到交通传票。来自纽约市警察局的数据 运输和我们的初步研究表明这些毒剂 经历频繁的人际冲突，并有言语障碍的风险 以及来自公众的身体虐待。特工和特工之间的对抗 公众提供了一个机会来研究特质的作用 愤怒/敌意在预测代理人的情感、认知和 行为应对策略对对抗，然后2)考察 这些应对策略与血压和心脏的关系 应答率。使用动态血压监测与这些 代理将允许调查心理生理学相关性 当他们发生对抗的时候。此外，该项目还将提供数据 敌意、应对方式与动态血液的关系 工作日的压力反应。这项研究也提供了一个机会 为了检验性对男女之间关系的调节作用 心理变量和血压反应。数据将是 收集自一个主要由美国黑人组成的团体，他们是 研究相对较少，但发展风险较高 心血管疾病。

Anger, hostility, and anger coping styles have been identified as possible risk factors for both hypertension and coronary heart disease. Laboratory studies have also found a link between cardiovascular hyper-reactivity and measures of anger and anger coping style. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring has been used to identify cardiovascular responses to real-life situations. This project provides an opportunity to assess the relationship between the coping styles NYC Traffic Enforcement Agents use to manage real-life interpersonal conflicts and ambulatory blood pressure. Traffic agents are regularly confronted by members of the public who are angry about receiving traffic summonses. Data from the New York City Department of Transportation and from our preliminary study indicate these agents are experiencing frequent interpersonal conflict and are at risk for verbal and physical abuse from the public. Confrontations between the agents and the public provide an opportunity to 1) examine the role of trait anger/hostility in predicting the agents' affective, cognitive and behavioral coping strategies to the confrontation, and then 2) examine the relationship between these coping strategies and blood pressure and heart rate response. The use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring with these agents will allow investigation of the psychophysiological correlates of confrontations as they occur. In addition, this project will provide data on the relationships among hostility, coping style, and ambulatory blood pressure responses during a workday. This study also offers an opportunity to examine the moderating effects of sex on the relationship between the psychological variables and blood pressure response. The data will be collected from a group comprised largely of Black Americans, who are relatively understudied but at high risk for the development of cardiovascular disease.