Social Competence as a Mediating Variable in Essential Hypertension

Résumé du livre

The personality literature and experimental findings regarding the interaction of stress and cardiovascular responses suggest that hyper-tensives display a distinctive cognitive, behavioral and psychophysiological reaction pattern to stressful interpersonal situations; i.e.,less socially competent and more aroused. The present research was an effort to provide empirical support for such a pattern. [...].