Premium
Essential hypertension and self‐disclosure
Author(s) -
Handkins Robert E.,
Munz David C.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197810)34:4<870::aid-jclp2270340409>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , situational ethics , self disclosure , psychodynamics , clinical psychology , sample (material) , social psychology , psychotherapist , chemistry , chromatography
A matched sample of 16 hypertensive and 16 non‐hypertensive Air Force male S s were administered the Journard Self‐Disclosure questionnaire and participated in an interview that discussed high and low intimate topics. Questionnaire data, content analysis scores of interview topics, and situational stress measures supported the hypothesis that hypertensives conceal their personal thoughts and feelings from others and deny the emotion‐arousing stimuli of a self‐disclosure situation. Investigation of the underlying psychodynamics of hypertension in a self‐disclosing situation as a potentially fruitful line of research was discussed.