Thomas C B, McCabe O L
Johns Hopkins Med J. 1980 Oct;147(4):137-45.
Patterns of habits of nervous tension (HNT) recorded by medical students who later developed cancer, coronary occlusion, hypertension, or mental illness, or who committed suicide, were compared with those of students who remained healthy 15 to 30 years later. Data came from the 25-item HNT Questionnaire previously reported. Unpaired t tests and two-group discriminant function analyses were the chief statistical methods used. Compared with those of the healthy group, the overall HNT patterns were significantly different for the cancer, coronary occlusion, mental illness and suicide groups. The overall pattern for the hypertension group did not reach significance. It therefore appears that youthful reactions to stress as self-reported in a checklist of habits of nervous tension reflect individual psychobiological differences that are linked with future health or disease.
对后来患上癌症、冠状动脉阻塞、高血压、精神疾病或自杀的医科学生所记录的神经紧张习惯模式(HNT),与15至30年后仍保持健康的学生的模式进行了比较。数据来自先前报道的25项HNT问卷。主要使用的统计方法是不成对t检验和两组判别函数分析。与健康组相比,癌症、冠状动脉阻塞、精神疾病和自杀组的总体HNT模式有显著差异。高血压组的总体模式未达到显著水平。因此,在神经紧张习惯清单中自我报告的年轻时对压力的反应似乎反映了与未来健康或疾病相关的个体心理生物学差异。