title: Towards a cognition - performance model of coronary - prone behavior.
abstract: The extent of coronary-prone behavior (CPB) is partially dependent upon specific, contextual characteristics of the work setting. Specific work demands reinforce a style of unrealistic cognitive appraisal which is thought to form a significant part of CPB. In order to test this assumption in a first step, we developed a questionnaire measuring this notion more appropriately than the well known tests of CPB (JAS, Bortner). Preliminary results of an experimental psychophysiologic study on the basis of this instrument are presented.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001519:Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000523:psychology; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*