Personality Self-Perceptions of Male Heart Patients and Their Wives: Issues of Congruence and “Coronary Personality”
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 43 (3) , 927-937
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1976.43.3.927
Abstract
This study examines personality self-ratings of 283 married men who had recently experienced a first myocardial infarction and who previously had been free from major disease. Similar data were collected from their “non-cardiac” wives. Results indicated that several traits often identified as descriptive of “coronary-prone” personality had high mean ratings in both husband and wife populations. In addition, factor analysis revealed a similar pattern of factors in each group. However, inspection of correlations showed for individual items, men with so-called “coronary-prone” personality traits did not generally have wives with these traits. Husbands and wives tended to agree regarding each other's personality self-ratings. Implications of these husband-wife data are discussed in regard to questions on the role of “coronary-prone” personality in heart disease.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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