At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Americans enjoyed better overall health than at any
other time in the nation's history. Rapid advancements in medical technologies …

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest in how personality affects the stress
process. This paper reports on a broad spectrum of findings on the relationships between …

Objective We tested a theoretical stress model cross-sectionally and prospectively that
examined whether relationships of chronic stress, psychophysiology, and coronary heart …

By way of introduction to this Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science,
we hope to achieve three interrelated goals. First, we define what we mean by a" healthy …

The authors report the results of 3 studies that were conducted to evaluate the psychometric
properties of the Physical Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a brief self-report scale of somatic …

During the 1980s, the Berkeley Stress and Coping Project conducted a number of studies
about the coping process based on a cognitive theory of stress and coping (Lazarus, 1966; …

During the 1980s, many studies examined the association of chronic anger and hostility with
cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (Helmers & Krantz, this volume; Smith, 1992). In fact …

Anxiety and anger are hazardous to health. This article offers a selective review of research
that illustrates how anxiety and anger increase vulnerability to illnesses, compromise the …

This research project took advantage of the implementation of a major mass transit
improvement by New Jersey Transit which provided a" one-seat ride" into New York City for …

Anger and aggression are prevalent problems among people with developmental
disabilities and constitute primary reasons for them to be admitted and re-admitted to …