CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND RESPONSE TO THE ROSENZWEIG PICTURE-FRUSTRATION STUDY.

COMPARED SS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (CAD) WITH A GROUP OF CONTROLS MATCHED FOR 2 DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES, SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES) AND AGE, IN RESPONSE TO THE ROSENZWEIG PICTURE-FRUSTRATION STUDY. CAD PATIENTS DID NOT DIFFER FROM CONTROLS, WHEREAS BOTH SES AND AGE PRODUCED PREDICTABLE KINDS OF DIFFERENCES ON THE TEST. RESULTS WERE CONSISTENT WITH THE ASSERTION THAT SPECIFIC PERSONALITY FACTORS WERE NOT RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAD, I.E., A CORONARY PERSONALITY DOES NOT EXIST. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)