1. A Psychophysiological Examination of the Mutability of Type D Personality in a Therapeutic Trial
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Kirsty L. Hodgson, Louise H. Carmi, Deborah A. Clayton, William D. Fraser, Ronald A. Ruden, Donnie Cameron, and Michael A. Carmi
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Physiology ,General Neuroscience ,Type D personality ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Therapeutic trial ,Clinical trial ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,Blood pressure ,Heart rate ,Personality ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,media_common ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Abstract. Identifying the associations between health and personality has been a focus for psychophysiological research. Type D personality is associated with predisposition to physical and psychological ill-health. This statistician-blind parallel-group controlled trial (intervention group vs. waiting list control group) examined the impact of Havening Techniques on the Type D constituents of negative affect (NA) and social inhibition (SI). One hundred twenty-five adult (18+ years) participants in the United Kingdom (72 females, 53 males) completed the Type D Scale-14 (DS14) measure of Type D personality at baseline (T1), 24-hours (T2), and at 1-month (T3). Forty participants in the treatment group received additional stress biomarker assessment of heart rate, blood pressure, and salivary cortisol. Type D caseness remained stable in the waiting list participants ( n = 57). In the treatment group ( n = 68); NA, SI, and total scores decreased from T1 to T2 ( p
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- 2021