Which of the following would not be considered a characteristic of hostility?

Hostility is defined by a suspicious, mistrustful attitude and cynical disposition toward others. Considered an enduring personality characteristic, hostility is characterized by cognitive, behavioral, and affective or emotional dimensions.

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Measurement of hostility can be based on structured interviews, with interviewer ratings of behavioral dimensions and verbal expressions of hostility based on participants’ actions and responses within the interview setting. The classic example of this method of assessing hostility is the structured interview for Type A behavior, which was developed by Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, the two cardiologists who first coined the term “Type A” to describe what they perceived to be coronary-prone behavior (e.g., hostility, aggressiveness, time urgency, and a need to be hard-driving) among their heart patients (Friedman and Rosenman ). The Type A interview is...

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  1. Department of Medicine and Program in Health Disparities Research, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Susan A. Everson-Rose, Priya Balaji & Xiaohui Yu

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Everson-Rose, S.A., Balaji, P., Yu, X. (2020). Hostility, Measurement of. In: Gellman, M.D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39903-0_256

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