1 The Impact of Certain Emotions in Cardiovascular Disorders -- Arrhythmias -- Sudden Cardiac Death -- Hypertension -- Anger and Hypertension -- Habits -- Anxiety and Cardiovascular Disease -- Mitral Valve Disease -- Type A Behavior Pattern and Ischemic Heart Disease -- 2 Hassles, Health, and Happiness -- Attitudes Toward Mental Health -- Stress, Anxiety, Vulnerability, and Illness -- Dynamic Interactionism -- Stress, Vulnerability, and Anxiety Research -- Hassles -- Stress, Biochemical Changes, and Illness -- Happiness and Optimism -- Conclusions -- 3 The Type A Behavior Pattern and Coronary Heart Disease: Physiological and Psychological Dimensions -- Physiological Dimensions of the Type A Behavior Pattern -- Psychological Dimensions of the Type A Behavior Pattern -- Conclusion -- 4 Sensation Seeking, Risk Taking, and Health -- Hypertension -- Smoking -- Reflections on Personality and Health -- 5 The Experience, Expression, and Control of Anger -- Anger, Hostility, and Aggression: The AHA! Syndrome -- The Expression of Anger -- Summary and Conclusions -- 6 Social Support, Personality, and Health -- Stress and Illness -- Social Support: Environmental and Individual Differences Perspectives -- Social Support and Illness -- Methodological and Research Needs -- What Is Social Support? -- 7 Personality and Stress as Causal Factors in Cancer and Coronary Heart Disease -- 8 Tempermental Dimensions as Co-Determinants of Resistance to Stress -- Sources of Individual Differences in Studying Stress -- Personality Dimensions as Sources of Individual Differences in Stress -- Reactivity as a Co-Determinant of Resistance to Stress -- Author Index.