Browsing by Author "Howard, Siobhán"
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A taxometric analysis of type-d personality
Ferguson, Eamonn; Williams, Lynn; O’Connor, Rory C.; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M.; Johnston, Derek W.; Allan, Julia L.; O’Connor, Daryl B.; Lewis, Christopher A.; Grealy, Madeleine A.; O’Carroll, Ronan E. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2009-11-01)Objective: To test the dimensionality of Type-D personality, using taxometric procedures, to assess if Type-D personality is taxonic or dimensional. Type-D personality is treated as a categorical variable and caseness has ... -
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Informa UK Limited, 2012-07-01)Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in building resilience in recipients. However, ... -
Conscientiousness and cardiovascular reactivity to recurrent acute psychological stress
Sesker, Amanda (NUI Galway, 2019-02-27)Introduction. Conscientiousness is a personality construct encompassing the trait of being careful, vigilant, dutiful, and concerned about the implications of one’s actions. It is a core trait within the five-factor ... -
Conscientiousness and mindfulness in midlife coping: An assessment based on MIDUS II
Sesker, Amanda A.; Ó Súilleabháin, Páraic; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Wiley, 2016-02-03)Research has demonstrated that conscientious individuals tend to engage in planful problem solving to cope with stressful situations. Likewise, mindful individuals tend to favour approach-based coping and are less likely ... -
Construct, concurrent and discriminant validity of type d personality in the general population: associations with anxiety, depression, stress and cardiac output
Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Informa UK Limited, 2012-02-01)The Type D personality, identified by high negative affectivity paired with high social inhibition, has been associated with a number of health-related outcomes in (mainly) cardiac populations. However, despite its prevalence ... -
Dyadic concordance in mother and preschooler resting cardiovascular function varies by risk status
Creaven, Ann-Marie; Skowron, Elizabeth A.; Hughes, Brian M.; Howard, Siobhán; Loken, Eric (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-09-11) -
Matching intra-procedural information with coping style reduces psychophysiological arousal in women undergoing colposcopy
Kola, Susanna; Walsh, Jane C.; Hughes, Brian M.; Howard, Siobhán (Springer Nature, 2012-06-24)This study assessed the combined effects of coping style and intra-procedural information on indices of distress (physiological measures, observed distress, self-report measures of anxiety and affect) among a group of ... -
Openness to experience and stress responsivity: an examination of cardiovascular and underlying hemodynamic trajectories within an acute stress exposure
O’Súilleabháin, Páraic S.; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-06-18)The personality trait openness to experience has been implicated in health, and in particular cardiovascular wellbeing. In a sample of 62 healthy young female adults, the role of openness in cardiovascular responsivity ... -
Perceived social support predicts lower cardiovascular reactivity to stress in older adults
Howard, Siobhán; Creaven, Ann-Marie; Hughes, Brian M.; O’Leary, Éanna D.; James, Jack E. (Elsevier BV, 2017-04-01) -
Type d personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women
Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M.; James, Jack E. (Elsevier BV, 2011-05-01)