Antecedents of the Type A Behavior Pattern

NCT00005328 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 4124R01HL025767
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 184
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

To identify the early emergence and stability of children's hostile behaviors and their associated psychophysiological responses to behavioral challenges, which are possible risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in adulthood; and to specify their determinants and consequences.

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Diseases

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Development of hostility, anxiety, and heightened cardiovascular responsivity to stress affect the early development of vascular stiffness and left ventricular mass.

  Adolescents' socioeconomic status and ethnicity affect their exposure to psychological stress, including discrimination, which, in turn, is thought to lead to the development of the propensity to be vigilant for possible threat, to view ambiguous situations as potentially harmful, and to mistrust others. These cognitive propensities may become more automatic with development and lead to stable traits of hostility, anxiety, and heightened cardiovascular responsivity to stress. These traits may then affect the early development of vascular stiffness and left ventricular mass.

  3 years

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 9 Years - 16 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Adolescents from one high school in Pittsburgh

No eligibility criteria

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Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pittsburgh: lead
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): collaborator

Related Publications (44)

• Gump BB, Matthews KA. Vigilance and cardiovascular reactivity to subsequent stressors in men: a preliminary study. Health Psychol. 1998 Jan;17(1):93-6. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.17.1.93.

  PMID: 9459076 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Gump BB, Block DR, Allen MT. Does background stress heighten or dampen children's cardiovascular responses to acute stress? Psychosom Med. 1997 Sep-Oct;59(5):488-96. doi: 10.1097/00006842-199709000-00005.

  PMID: 9316181 BACKGROUND

• Allen MT, Matthews KA, Sherman FS. Cardiovascular reactivity to stress and left ventricular mass in youth. Hypertension. 1997 Oct;30(4):782-7. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.30.4.782.

  PMID: 9336373 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA. Origins of the Type A (coronary-prone) behavior pattern. J S C Med Assoc. 1983 Oct;79(10):551-6. No abstract available.

  PMID: 6580505 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Rosenman RH, Dembroski TM, Harris EL, MacDougall JM. Familial resemblance in components of the type A behavior pattern: a reanalysis of the California type A twin study. Psychosom Med. 1984 Nov-Dec;46(6):512-22. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198411000-00004.

  PMID: 6542684 BACKGROUND

• Jennings JR, Matthews KA. The impatience of youth: phasic cardiovascular response in type A and type B elementary school-aged boys. Psychosom Med. 1984 Nov-Dec;46(6):498-511. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198411000-00003.

  PMID: 6514950 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Jennings JR. Cardiovascular responses of boys exhibiting the type A behavior pattern. Psychosom Med. 1984 Nov-Dec;46(6):484-97. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198411000-00002.

  PMID: 6514949 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Avis NE. Stability of overt Type A behaviors in children: results from a one-year longitudinal study. Child Dev. 1983 Dec;54(6):1507-12.

  PMID: 6661943 BACKGROUND

• Siegel JM, Matthews KA, Leitch CJ. Blood pressure variability and the type A behavior pattern in adolescence. J Psychosom Res. 1983;27(4):265-72. doi: 10.1016/0022-3999(83)90048-x.

  PMID: 6620203 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Volkin JI. Efforts to excel and the type A behavior pattern in children. Child Dev. 1981;52(4):1283-9.

  PMID: 7318523 BACKGROUND

• Siegel JM, Matthews KA, Leitch CJ. Validation of the type A interview assessment of adolescents: a multidimensional approach. Psychosom Med. 1981 Aug;43(4):311-21. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198108000-00004.

  PMID: 7280160 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA. Coronary heart disease and type A behaviors: update on and alternative to the Booth-Kewley and Friedman (1987) quantitative review. Psychol Bull. 1988 Nov;104(3):373-80. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.104.3.373. No abstract available.

  PMID: 3062658 BACKGROUND

• Woodall KL, Matthews KA. Familial environment associated with type A behaviors and psychophysiological responses to stress in children. Health Psychol. 1989;8(4):403-26. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.8.4.403.

  PMID: 2583078 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Manuck SB, Stoney CM, Rakaczky CJ, McCann BS, Saab PG, Woodall KL, Block DR, Visintainer PF, Engebretson TO. Familial aggregation of blood pressure and heart rate responses during behavioral stress. Psychosom Med. 1988 Jul-Aug;50(4):341-52. doi: 10.1097/00006842-198807000-00003.

  PMID: 3413268 BACKGROUND

• Stoney CM, Matthews KA. Parental history of hypertension and myocardial infarction predicts cardiovascular responses to behavioral stressors in middle-aged men and women. Psychophysiology. 1988 May;25(3):269-77. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1988.tb01241.x. No abstract available.

  PMID: 3406328 BACKGROUND

• Visintainer PF, Matthews KA. Stability of overt type A behaviors in children: results from a two- and five-year longitudinal study. Child Dev. 1987 Dec;58(6):1586-91.

  PMID: 3691203 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Rakaczky CJ, Stoney CM, Manuck SB. Are cardiovascular responses to behavioral stressors a stable individual difference variable in childhood? Psychophysiology. 1987 Jul;24(4):464-73. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1987.tb00318.x. No abstract available.

  PMID: 3615758 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Stoney CM, Rakaczky CJ, Jamison W. Family characteristics and school achievements of type A children. Health Psychol. 1986;5(5):453-67. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.5.5.453.

  PMID: 3757993 BACKGROUND

• Murray DM, Matthews KA, Blake SM, Prineas RJ, Gillum RF. Type A behavior in children: demographic, behavioral, and physiological correlates. Health Psychol. 1986;5(2):159-69. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.5.2.159.

  PMID: 3732229 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Manuck SB, Saab PG. Cardiovascular responses of adolescents during a naturally occurring stressor and their behavioral and psychophysiological predictors. Psychophysiology. 1986 Mar;23(2):198-209. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1986.tb00618.x. No abstract available.

  PMID: 3704076 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Woodall KL, Allen MT. Cardiovascular reactivity to stress predicts future blood pressure status. Hypertension. 1993 Oct;22(4):479-85. doi: 10.1161/01.hyp.22.4.479.

  PMID: 8406652 BACKGROUND

• Woodall KL, Matthews KA. Changes in and stability of hostile characteristics: results from a 4-year longitudinal study of children. J Pers Soc Psychol. 1993 Mar;64(3):491-9. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.64.3.491.

  PMID: 8468674 BACKGROUND

• Porges SW, Matthews KA, Pauls DL. The biobehavioral interface in behavioral pediatrics. Pediatrics. 1992 Nov;90(5 Pt 2):789-97. No abstract available.

  PMID: 1437409 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Woodall KL, Engebretson TO, McCann BS, Stoney CM, Manuck SB, Saab PG. Influence of age, sex, and family on Type A and hostile attitudes and behaviors. Health Psychol. 1992;11(5):317-23. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.11.5.317.

  PMID: 1425549 BACKGROUND

• Engebretson TO, Matthews KA. Dimensions of hostility in men, women, and boys: relationships to personality and cardiovascular responses to stress. Psychosom Med. 1992 May-Jun;54(3):311-23. doi: 10.1097/00006842-199205000-00007.

  PMID: 1620807 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Woodall KL, Stoney CM. Changes in and stability of cardiovascular responses to behavioral stress: results from a four-year longitudinal study of children. Child Dev. 1990 Aug;61(4):1134-44.

  PMID: 2209183 BACKGROUND

• Allen MT, Matthews KA. Hemodynamic responses to laboratory stressors in children and adolescents: the influences of age, race, and gender. Psychophysiology. 1997 May;34(3):329-39. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02403.x.

  PMID: 9175447 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Woodall KL, Kenyon K, Jacob T. Negative family environment as a predictor of boys' future status on measures of hostile attitudes, interview behavior, and anger expression. Health Psychol. 1996 Jan;15(1):30-7. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.15.1.30.

  PMID: 8788538 BACKGROUND

• Adler N, Matthews K. Health psychology: why do some people get sick and some stay well? Annu Rev Psychol. 1994;45:229-59. doi: 10.1146/annurev.ps.45.020194.001305. No abstract available.

  PMID: 8135503 BACKGROUND

• Lassner JB, Matthews KA, Stoney CM. Are cardiovascular reactors to asocial stress also reactors to social stress? J Pers Soc Psychol. 1994 Jan;66(1):69-77. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.66.1.69.

  PMID: 8126652 BACKGROUND

• Gump BB, Matthews KA, Raikkonen K. Modeling relationships among socioeconomic status, hostility, cardiovascular reactivity, and left ventricular mass in African American and White children. Health Psychol. 1999 Mar;18(2):140-50. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.18.2.140.

  PMID: 10194049 BACKGROUND

• Allen MT, Matthews KA, Kenyon KL. The relationships of resting baroreflex sensitivity, heart rate variability and measures of impulse control in children and adolescents. Int J Psychophysiol. 2000 Aug;37(2):185-94. doi: 10.1016/s0167-8760(00)00089-1.

  PMID: 10832005 BACKGROUND

• Salomon K, Matthews KA, Allen MT. Patterns of sympathetic and parasympathetic reactivity in a sample of children and adolescents. Psychophysiology. 2000 Nov;37(6):842-9.

  PMID: 11117464 BACKGROUND

• Chen E, Matthews KA. Cognitive appraisal biases: an approach to understanding the relation between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular reactivity in children. Ann Behav Med. 2001 Spring;23(2):101-11. doi: 10.1207/S15324796ABM2302_4.

  PMID: 11394551 BACKGROUND

• Chen E, Matthews KA, Boyce WT. Socioeconomic differences in children's health: how and why do these relationships change with age? Psychol Bull. 2002 Mar;128(2):295-329. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.128.2.295.

  PMID: 11931521 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Salomon K, Kenyon K, Allen MT. Stability of children's and adolescents' hemodynamic responses to psychological challenge: a three-year longitudinal study of a multiethnic cohort of boys and girls. Psychophysiology. 2002 Nov;39(6):826-34. doi: 10.1111/1469-8986.3960826.

  PMID: 12462510 BACKGROUND

• Ewart CK, Jorgensen RS, Suchday S, Chen E, Matthews KA. Measuring stress resilience and coping in vulnerable youth: the Social Competence Interview. Psychol Assess. 2002 Sep;14(3):339-52. doi: 10.1037//1040-3590.14.3.339.

  PMID: 12214440 BACKGROUND

• Chen E, Matthews KA. Development of the cognitive appraisal and understanding of social events (CAUSE) videos. Health Psychol. 2003 Jan;22(1):106-10. doi: 10.1037//0278-6133.22.1.106.

  PMID: 12558208 BACKGROUND

• Gallo LC, Matthews KA. Understanding the association between socioeconomic status and physical health: do negative emotions play a role? Psychol Bull. 2003 Jan;129(1):10-51. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.1.10.

  PMID: 12555793 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Salomon K, Brady SS, Allen MT. Cardiovascular reactivity to stress predicts future blood pressure in adolescence. Psychosom Med. 2003 May-Jun;65(3):410-5. doi: 10.1097/01.psy.0000057612.94797.5f.

  PMID: 12764214 BACKGROUND

• Troxel WM, Matthews KA. What are the costs of marital conflict and dissolution to children's physical health? Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2004 Mar;7(1):29-57. doi: 10.1023/b:ccfp.0000020191.73542.b0.

  PMID: 15119687 BACKGROUND

• Chen E, Langer DA, Raphaelson YE, Matthews KA. Socioeconomic status and health in adolescents: the role of stress interpretations. Child Dev. 2004 Jul-Aug;75(4):1039-52. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00724.x.

  PMID: 15260863 BACKGROUND

• Goldbacher EM, Matthews KA, Salomon K. Central adiposity is associated with cardiovascular reactivity to stress in adolescents. Health Psychol. 2005 Jul;24(4):375-84. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.4.375.

  PMID: 16045373 BACKGROUND

• Matthews KA, Salomon K, Kenyon K, Zhou F. Unfair treatment, discrimination, and ambulatory blood pressure in black and white adolescents. Health Psychol. 2005 May;24(3):258-65. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.24.3.258.

  PMID: 15898861 BACKGROUND

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases; Heart Diseases

Study Officials

• Karen Matthews, PhD

  University of Pittsburgh

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: ECOLOGIC OR COMMUNITY
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Distinguished Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 25, 2000
• First Posted: May 26, 2000
• Study Start: April 1, 1980
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2008
• Study Completion: August 1, 2008
• Last Updated: January 17, 2013

Record last verified: 2013-01