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Type D Personality (DS14)

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About this scale

In medical research, personality traits are related to medial outcomes. For example, people with certain personality traits are more likely to suffer from heart and other cardiovascular illnesses. Johan Denollet (1957-2019) was a well-known Belgian psychologist in the area of medical psychology . He published influential articles about the link between personality and coronary heart disease in the world-leading medical journal The Lancet (Denollet, 1996) .

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Source & citation

Denollet, J., Sys, S.U., Stroobant, N., Rombouts, H., Gillebert, T.C., & Brutsaert, D.L. (1996). Personality as independent predictor of long-term mortality in patients with coronary heart disease. The Lancet, 347, 417-421. Free link to full text | Denollet, J. (2005). DS14: Standard Assessment of Negative Affectivity, Social Inhibition, and Type D Personality. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67 , 89-97. Free link to PDF | Deary, I.J., Weiss, A., & Batty, G.D., 2010. Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Illness and Death: How Researchers in Differential Psychology and Chronic Disease Epidemiology Are Collaborating to Understand and Address Health Inequalities. Psychological Science, 11(2), 53-79. Publisher link (behind paywall)

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