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Anxiety, Type A personality and endocrine responses to surgery
Author(s) -
Salmon P.,
Pearce S.,
Smith C. C. T.,
Manyande A.,
Heys A.,
Peters N.,
Rashid J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1989.tb01378.x
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , personality , trait anxiety , endocrine system , clinical psychology , hydrocortisone , trait , endocrinology , medicine , psychiatry , hormone , social psychology , computer science , programming language
Twenty‐seven patients underwent major abdominal surgery. Trait Anxiety and Type A personality were measured pre‐operatively, and plasma cortisol, adrenaline and noradrenaline were measured pre‐, per‐ and post‐operatively. Anxiety correlated positively with noradrenaline but negatively with cortisol and adrenaline. Type A also showed opposite correlations with adrenaline and noradrenaline.