J Behav Med. 1997 Dec;20(6):505-22.

Anger management style and hostility: predicting symptom-specific physiological reactivity among chronic low back pain patients.

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Finch University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School, Department of Psychology, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, USA.

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It was hypothesized that anger management style (anger-in or anger-out) and hostility affect the aggravation of chronic low back pain (CLBP) through symptom-specific (i.e., lower paraspinal muscle) reactivity during stress. Subjects were 102 CLBP patients who performed mental arithmetic and an Anger Recall Interview (ARI) while trapezius and lower paraspinal EMG, SBP, DBP, and HR were recorded. Results showed anger-in x hostility and anger-out x gender interactions for lower paraspinal but not trapezius reactivity, and only during the ARI. Further analyses revealed that (1) hostility was related positively to lower paraspinal reactivity among high anger suppressors, (2) hostility was related negatively to lower paraspinal reactivity among low anger suppressors, and (3) anger expression was related positively to lower paraspinal reactivity only among men. Anger management style and hostility may contribute to the exacerbation of CLBP by influencing stress reactivity only in muscles near the site of pain or injury.

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S07 RR05366-28/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States

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