Open AccessHostility Dimensions and Metabolic Syndrome in a Healthy, Midlife Sample
Author(s) -
Mark Thomas,
Thomas W. Kamarck,
Aidan G.C. Wright,
Karen A. Matthews,
Matthew F. Muldoon,
Stephen B. Manuck
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of behavioral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1532-7558
pISSN - 1070-5503
DOI - 10.1007/s12529-020-09855-y
Subject(s) - hostility , moderation , psychology , waist , anger , metabolic syndrome , cognition , trait , aggression , clinical psychology , obesity , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , computer science , programming language
Evidence links trait hostility with components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS), a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors, but which hostility dimensions (e.g., expressive or cognitive hostility) relate to MetS are not well known. Further, there may be age and sex differences in the extent to which hostility dimensions relate to MetS. The present study evaluated associations between dimensions of hostility and the metabolic syndrome and its individual components as well as the moderating effects of sex and age.