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Psychosomatic Medicine 35:50-56 (1973)
© 1973 American Psychosomatic Society

Hypertension and Personality

I. PILOWSKY MD1, D. SPALDING BA2, J. SHAW MBBS3, and P. I. KORNER MD3

1 Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia
3 Department of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia

Address for reprint requests: I. Pilowsky, M.D., Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, S.A. 5001, Australia

Scores on personality measures of 12 male subjects with essential hypertension have been correlated with haemodynamic measures of cardiovascular functioning. A relationship was demonstrated between blood pressure levels and total peripheral resistance at rest; and degree of change after autonomic blockade, and scores on the deference and abasement scales of the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule and the IPAT Anxiety Questionnaire and Cornell Medical Index scores. These findings lend support to previous findings which have indicated the importance of suppressed emotions in the aetiology of hypertension.

Submitted on December 10, 1971
Revised on April 20, 1972






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