Recent evidence suggests that individuals with certain personality traits are at elevated risk
for chronic systemic inflammation. To date, this literature has focused on the related traits of …

Prior research has demonstrated that state depressive symptoms and hostility can modulate
inflammatory immune responses and directly contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD) …

Anxiety confers increased risk for inflammatory diseases, and elevated inflammatory activity
in anxious individuals may contribute to this increased risk. One complication, however, is …

Background and objective Hostility may be associated with greater systemic inflammation.
However, contradictory evidence exists. Certain individuals or dimensions of hostility may be …

Background Associations between socio-economic status (SES), personality and
inflammation were examined to determine whether low SES subjects scoring high on …

Hostility has been associated with heightened proinflammatory activity. However, it is not
known whether greater hostility contributes to greater inflammation by promoting higher Th1 …

Prior research has demonstrated that the daily experience of negative affect is associated
with increased levels of proinflammatory activity as evidenced by higher interleukin-6 among …

The current study investigated if the Big 5 personality traits predicted interleukin-6 (IL-6)
levels in a national sample over the course of 5years. In addition, interactions among the Big …

Psychological stressors reliably trigger systemic inflammatory activity as indexed by levels of
proinflammatory cytokines. This experiment demonstrates that one's specific emotional …

Objective: Recent evidence suggests that depressive symptoms and hostility may act
together, as interacting factors, to have an effect on the circulating levels of inflammatory …