RELATIONSHIP OF EXPRESSION AND EXPERIENCE OF HOSTILITY TO PERIOPERATIVE INCIDENCE OF SILENT MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA OF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SURGERY PATIENTS.
Contributors: New York University.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, General.
Description: The relationship between the expression and experience of hostility to the perioperative incidence of silent myocardial ischemia in peripheral vascular surgery patients was investigated in this study. An abridged version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R, Form S) was postoperatively administered to 120 peripheral vascular surgery patients who were monitored perioperatively for silent myocardial ischemia (SMI). Results of statistical analysis showed no direct effects of either the expression or experience of hostility on the incidence of SMI. There was a marginal interaction effect, such that expression of hostility related to the incidence of SMI among individuals who were high in experience of hostility. Otherwise, among those low in experience of hostility, there was no relationship between expression of hostility and incidence of SMI. Methodological considerations were discussed. They include questions in regard to both the predictor variables (i.e., use of an abridged scale) and criterion variable, as well as more general questions in regard to the possible effects of sex differences, age variations, possible self-selection of subjects, and the need for more subjects in each age level.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-10, Section: B, page: 4321.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 0146.