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Hypertension, disclosure of personal concerns, and blood pressure response
Author(s) -
Cumes D. P.
Publication year - 1983
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(198305)39:3<376::aid-jclp2270390311>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - blood pressure , checklist , feeling , psychology , self disclosure , clinical psychology , cognition , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , cognitive psychology
Studied the degree of self‐disclosure in borderline and hypertensive individuals ( N = 50) using a checklist of personal concerns. Shoppers who sought blood pressure measurements in a health display had blood pressure measured before and after the completion of the checklist. Results showed that individuals with elevated blood pressure did not disclose as many personal concerns as normotensives and were less likely to report feeling stressed after the cognitive task even when blood pressure increases had occurred. These findings indicate the need both for further understanding of the nature of self‐disclosure and also concurrent investigations of hypertensive characteristics and blood pressure responsivity.