{"id":2603,"date":"2015-05-20T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2015-06-02T21:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:47:47","slug":"the-research-and-applications-of-clinical-health-psychology-for-cardiovascular-diseases-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2603","title":{"rendered":"The Research and Applications of Clinical Health Psychology for Cardiovascular Diseases in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chia-Ying Weng<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Psychology\u00a0National Chung Cheng University<\/p>\n

The research and applications of clinical health psychology for cardiovascular diseases were built by the Health Psychology Research Team led by Professor En-Chang Wu. This team found that hostility personality is an important psychopathological factor for cardiovascular diseases. Empirical researches conducted in Taiwan demonstrated that hostility directly involving in the pathophysiological mechanism of cardiovascular diseases with the findings that hostility was correlated with higher cardiovascular responses, higher autonomic nervous system activities, higher blood lipids, and impaired endothelial functions. Additionally, hostility indirectly involved in the pathophysiological mechanism of cardiovascular diseases through the negative health behaviors including greater alcohol, cigarette, and high fatty food consuming. With respect to the clinical application, Weng et al. (2006) reported that the cognitive behavior group therapy could reduce the blood coagulant speed of coronary heart disease patients to decrease the recurrence and mortality rate of the disease by decreasing the hostility tendency of coronary artery heart disease patients.<\/p>\n

Keywords: clinical health psychology, vardiovascular disease, hostility,psychpothological mechanism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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