Alana Rosa, "Personality characteristics and women's health: Evidence that high levels of trait hostility and anxiety reduce overall quality of life" (2016)

Title

Alana Rosa, "Personality characteristics and women's health: Evidence that high levels of trait hostility and anxiety reduce overall quality of life" (2016)

Subject

Personality
Quality of life

Description

Our lab has conducted multiple experiments examining the effects of personality on the ability to process stress, which has been demonstrated to differentially require right hemisphere resources. We have consistently found sex differences across experiments, including the ability to complete a spatial task after consuming caffeine (Holland et al., 2014), and the ability to complete a motor task upon exposure to emotional stress, (Newton et al., 2014). The current research is a comparison of two experiments examining changes in the ability of the right hemisphere to regulate two stressors concurrently in women with high levels of trait hostility (experiment one) and trait anxiety (experiment two).

Date

November 2016

Rights

Creative Commons License
Personality characteristics and women's health: Evidence that high levels of trait hostility and anxiety reduce overall quality of life by Alana Rosa, Cristina Blanco, John Kennington, Kera Stroner, Jessica Reynolds, Angela Neal, and Kate Holland is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Format

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Title

Personality characteristics and women's health: Evidence that high levels of trait hostility and anxiety reduce overall quality of life

Author

Alana Rosa

Co-Author(s)/Affiliation:

Cristina Blanco, University of South Carolina Lancaster
John Kennington, University of South Carolina Lancaster
Kera Stroner, University of South Carolina Lancaster
Jessica Reynolds, University of South Carolina Lancaster
Angela Neal, Ph.D., University of South Carolina Lancaster
Kate Holland, Ph.D., University of South Carolina Lancaster

Date (Month, Year)

November 2016

Conference Name

Carolina Women’s Health Research Forum

Location (City, State; City, Country)

Columbia, South Carolina

USCL Department Affiliation

Business, Behavioral Sciences, Criminal Justice, and Education