Psychological response styles and cardiovascular health: confound or independent risk factor?
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This article examines the effectiveness of using response styles as predictors of cardiovascular health. Results indicate that controlling for personality-related confounds in cardiovascular health studies did not improve predictive accuracy, but using response styles as independent variables significantly improved the accuracy of cardiovascular health predictions in longitudinal studies.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2000
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Changes in smoking behaviors from late childhood to adolescence: insights from the Canadian national longitudinal survey of children and youth
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A study uses growth mixture modeling to examine smoking behavior in Canadian youth. Instances are taken from a survey.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2007
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Perceived racism and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to personally relevant stress
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A study examines cardiovascular responses of black men who face racial discrimination.
Publication Name: Health Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0278-6133
Year: 2006
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