HOSTILITY AND ANGER MEASURES IN CORONARY HEART-DISEASE

Recent research addressing the link between psychological factors and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) has focused on the areas of hosti lity and anger and produced sometimes contradictory results. This stud y makes use of four questionnaire measures of hostility and anger, whi ch were administered to matched groups with and without CHD. Quicker e xperiences of anger with greater verbal expression best predicted CHD. The difficulties in teasing out the relative contributions of emotion al expression, experience and personality using available questionnair es are discussed.