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DS14: Standard Assessment of Negative Affectivity, Social Inhibition, and Type D Personality

From Medical Psychology, Department of Psychology and Health, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. Scree plot showing the eigenvalues of the factors representing the items from the DS14. This scree plot indicated a marked "elbow" that inflected after the second factor. Succeeding factors explained a minor proportion of variance in personality and had an eigenvalue<1.0.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Percentage of subjects with Type D personality as a function of cardiovascular morbidity. Control, subjects from the general population (N = 2508); CHD, patients with coronary heart disease (N = 438); HYPT, patients with hypertension (N = 732).

View larger version (47K): [in a new window]   Figure 3. Changes in mean scores on personality, mood, and health status measures before and after cardiac rehabilitation (N = 121). Standard deviations of entry and scores: 6.7 and 6.5 (DS14–social inhibition); 6.0 and 5.8 (DS14–negative affectivity); 8.9 and 7.7 (GMS–negative affect); 8.3 and 8.0 (GMS–positive affect); 18.9 and 17.6 (HCS–total score).

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