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| T W SmithSummaryAffiliation: University of Utah Country: USA Publications
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Socioeconomic status, psychosocial processes, and perceived health: an interpersonal perspectiveLinda C Gallo
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, CA 92120, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:109-19. 2006..Concepts and methods from interpersonal theory (1) could provide a useful framework for research concerning the roles of psychosocial factors in socioeconomic health disparities...- Hostility, anger, and marital adjustment: concurrent and prospective associations with psychosocial vulnerabilityKelly Glazer Baron
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 390 South 1530 East rm 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Behav Med 30:1-10. 2007..These results support the role of hostility and anger in the development of psychosocial vulnerability, but also suggest an asymmetry in the effects of wives' and husbands' trait anger and hostility on marital adjustment... 
Can hostility interfere with the health benefits of giving and receiving social support? The impact of cynical hostility on cardiovascular reactivity during social support interactions among friendsJulianne Holt-Lunstad
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, 1024 SWKT, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Ann Behav Med 35:319-30. 2008....- Marital discord and coronary artery disease: a comparison of behaviorally defined discrete groupsTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 80:87-92. 2012..To determine if a categorical representation of marital discord was also related to CAD, discordant and nondiscordant groups were identified via cluster analysis in further analyses of the T. W. Smith et al. (2011) study... - Behavioral medicine and clinical health psychology: introduction to the special issue, a view from the decade of behaviorTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112 0251, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:459-62. 2002.... - Introduction to the special section on the future of health psychologyTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 23:115-8. 2004..In every case, the future holds a variety of important challenges and opportunities in research, practice, training, and policy... - Associations of self-reports versus spouse ratings of negative affectivity, dominance, and affiliation with coronary artery disease: where should we look and who should we ask when studying personality and health?Timothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 27:676-84. 2008..Using structural models of these personality domains, we tested associations of self-reports and spouse ratings of anxiety, depressive symptoms, anger, affiliation and dominance with coronary artery disease (CAD)... - Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: I. Age differences in agency and communion during marital interactionTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 24:259-73. 2009..During collaboration, older couples displayed a unique blend of warmth and control, suggesting a greater focus on emotional and social concerns during problem solving... - Psychosocial influences on the development and course of coronary heart disease: current status and implications for research and practiceTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 70:548-68. 2002..Finally, they discussed implications for clinical care and the agenda for future research... - Personality and risk of physical illnessTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Annu Rev Clin Psychol 2:435-67. 2006..In these efforts, greater incorporation of concepts and methods in the structural, social-cognitive, and interpersonal perspectives in the field of personality are needed... - Conflict and collaboration in middle-aged and older couples: II. Cardiovascular reactivity during marital interactionTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 24:274-86. 2009..g., collaboration among older couples) may also contribute to this mechanism... - Mental activation of supportive ties, hostility, and cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress in young men and womenTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 23:476-85. 2004..Hence, mental activation of supportive ties altered effects of laboratory stress and might be relevant to the effects of social relations on health... - Vigilance, active coping, and cardiovascular reactivity during social interaction in young menT W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Health Psychol 19:382-92. 2000..Thus, both vigilance and active coping in social contexts increased cardiovascular reactivity, but apparently through different psychophysiological processes... - Interpersonal circumplex descriptions of psychosocial risk factors for physical illness: application to hostility, neuroticism, and marital adjustmentTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East Room 502, Behavioral Sciences Building, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pers 78:1011-36. 2010..Findings identify interpersonal processes reflecting low affiliation or high hostility as a common component of risk and indicate distinctions among risk factors along the dominance dimension... - Hostile personality traits and coronary artery calcification in middle-aged and older married couples: different effects for self-reports versus spouse ratingsTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychosom Med 69:441-8. 2007.... - Matters of the variable heart: respiratory sinus arrhythmia response to marital interaction and associations with marital qualityTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 100:103-19. 2011..Women's reduced health benefit from marriage might reflect the depleting effects on self-regulatory capacity of their greater efforts to manage relationship quality... - Affiliation and control during marital disagreement, history of divorce, and asymptomatic coronary artery calcification in older couplesTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1530 East, Room 502, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychosom Med 73:350-7. 2011..Inconsistencies might reflect limitations of self-reports of marital quality compared with behavioral observations. Also, aspects of marital quality related to CAD might differ for men and women... - Prevention and health promotion: decades of progress, new challenges, and an emerging agendaTimothy W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Health Psychol 23:126-31. 2004.... - Agency, communion, and cardiovascular reactivity during marital interactionT W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Health Psychol 17:537-45. 1998..Results are congruent with a situational approach to sex differences in cardiovascular reactivity and illustrate the utility of interpersonal methods in the explication of psychosocial risk for cardiovascular disease... - Hostility and cardiovascular reactivity during marital interactionT W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112 0251, USA
Psychosom Med 61:436-45. 1999..This study examined the effects of individual differences in hostility and two experimentally manipulated social stressors on cardiovascular reactivity during marital interaction... - Interpersonal control and cardiovascular reactivity: goals, behavioral expression, and the moderating effects of sexT W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 70:1012-24. 1996..The effects of social dominance on CVR, sex differences in CVR, and interpersonal approaches to the study of these psychophysiological mechanisms are discussed... - Distinguishing narcissism and hostility: similarities and differences in interpersonal circumplex and five-factor correlatesJ M Ruiz
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
J Pers Assess 76:537-55. 2001..These findings suggest that the traits of narcissism and hostility are distinguishable by their interpersonal referents, as are their components... - Perceptions of spouse dominance predict blood pressure reactivity during marital interactionsP C Brown
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Ann Behav Med 20:286-93. 1998.... - Hostility, anger, aggressiveness, and coronary heart disease: an interpersonal perspective on personality, emotion, and healthTimothy W Smith
University of Utah, USA
J Pers 72:1217-70. 2004.... - Relationship quality moderates the effect of social support given by close friends on cardiovascular reactivity in womenDarcy Uno
University of Utah and Health Psychology Program, Support and Reactivity, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Int J Behav Med 9:243-62. 2002..These data are discussed in light of the psychosocial processes underlying social support effects in women, and the importance of a more comprehensive view of how close relationships influence cardiovascular function... - Age, marital satisfaction, and optimism as predictors of positive sentiment override in middle-aged and older married couplesT Nathan Story
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:719-27. 2007..The results are consistent with theories of emotion regulation, such as socioemotional selectivity theory, that suggest that older adults are biased toward the positive aspects of close relationships... - Social determinants of cardiovascular reactivity: effects of incentive to exert influence and evaluative threatT W Smith
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Psychophysiology 34:65-73. 1997..Evaluative threat increased systolic reactivity by 7.1 mmHg (36%). These interpersonal processes could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and are likely to affect the degree of cardiovascular reactivity in laboratory studies... - Sibling interactions, self-regulation, and cynical hostility in adult male twinsT W Smith
University of Utah, Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City 84112 0251, USA
J Behav Med 21:337-49. 1998..Thus, a developmental perspective not only describes possible social contexts involved in the emergence of this trait, but also suggests possible psychological underpinnings. Implications for models of hostility and health are discussed... - Social relationships and ambulatory blood pressure: structural and qualitative predictors of cardiovascular function during everyday social interactionsJulianne Holt-Lunstad
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 5543, USA
Health Psychol 22:388-97. 2003..These data highlight the influence of both structural and qualitative aspects of relationships on ambulatory BP and possibly health... - Positive and negative characteristics of marital interaction and their association with marital satisfaction in middle-aged and older couplesNancy J M Henry
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1350 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:428-41. 2007..Findings suggest that, in some contexts, both positive and negative characteristics are more salient for older adults... - Task control and cognitive abilities of self and spouse in collaboration in middle-aged and older couplesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 380 South 1350 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:420-7. 2007..For women only, the fit between control and abilities was associated with better performance. The results indicate no age differences in couple expertise but point to gender as a factor in optimal collaboration... - Social relationships and physiological function: the effects of recalling social relationships on cardiovascular reactivityLindsey E Bloor
Department of Psychology and Health Psychology Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112, USA
Ann Behav Med 28:29-38. 2004..The mechanisms by which social relationships exert their influence on mental and physical health outcomes deserve greater attention... - Provider and recipient factors that may moderate the effectiveness of received support: examining the effects of relationship quality and expectations for support on behavioral and cardiovascular reactionsMaija Reblin
College of Nursing, University of Utah, 10 South 2000 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 5880, USA
J Behav Med 33:423-31. 2010..Overall, support expectations had little influence on cardiovascular and behavioral responses. Implications for the study of received support and health are discussed along with potential mechanisms responsible for such links... - Perceptions of the cognitive compensation and interpersonal enjoyment functions of collaboration among middle-aged and older married couplesCynthia A Berg
Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 26:167-73. 2011..Greater marital satisfaction was associated with greater interpersonal enjoyment. These two functions related to reports of more frequent use of collaboration and perceptions of spousal affiliation in a collaborative task... - Age-related differences in ambulatory blood pressure during daily stress: evidence for greater blood pressure reactivity with ageBert N Uchino
University of Utah, Department of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 0251, USA
Psychol Aging 21:231-9. 2006..The results of this study are consistent with the age-related increase in cardiovascular risk but highlight the complex links between stress and different facets of the aging process... 
Social ties and cardiovascular function: an examination of relationship positivity and negativity during stressWendy Birmingham
Health Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 74:114-9. 2009..Results of this study suggest that the quality of one's relationships is an important moderator of cardiovascular reactivity during stress...- Profiles of successful aging in middle-aged and older adult married couplesKelly J Ko
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Psychol Aging 22:705-18. 2007..Profiles of successful aging did discriminate on external measures of well-being. The results point to the value of a multidimensional notion of successful aging in couples across the life span... - Hostility and sex differences in the magnitude, duration, and determinants of heart rate response to forehead cold pressor: parasympathetic aspects of riskJohn M Ruiz
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, 99164 4820, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 60:274-83. 2006..The findings broaden understanding of hostility and sex-related cardiovascular functioning and support the task as a method for evoking PNS-cardiac stimulation... - Cardiovascular reactivity during positive and negative marital interactionsJill B Nealey-Moore
Department of Psychology, University of Puget Sound, 1500 N Warner St 1046, Tacoma, WA 98416, USA
J Behav Med 30:505-19. 2007..Hence, CVR could contribute to the effects of marital difficulties on CVD. Previous evidence of sex differences in this effect might reflect factors other than simple reactivity to negative interactions... - On the importance of relationship quality: the impact of ambivalence in friendships on cardiovascular functioningJulianne Holt-Lunstad
Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Ann Behav Med 33:278-90. 2007..Social relationships are reliably related to rates of morbidity and mortality. One pathway by which social relationships may influence health is via the impact of relationship quality on cardiovascular reactivity during social interactions... - Cardiovascular and electrodermal responses to support and provocation: interpersonal methods in the study of psychophysiological reactivityL C Gallo
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Psychophysiology 37:289-301. 2000..The roles of interpersonal characteristics and contexts in the physiological stress response and the utility of interpersonal methods in studying these associations are discussed... - Relationship quality and CPAP adherence in patients with obstructive sleep apneaKelly Glazer Baron
Department of Psychology, University of Utah
Behav Sleep Med 7:22-36. 2009..001), and functional impairment (d = 1.48, p < .001). These findings highlight the importance of evaluating marital conflict for OSA patients and suggest marital conflict may be a target for interventions to improve CPAP adherence... - Invitation to a dialogue between researchers and clinicians about evidence-based behavioral medicineBonnie Spring
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Ann Behav Med 30:125-37. 2005..Evidence-based behavioral medicine (EBBM) aims to improve the process through which best scientific research evidence can be obtained and translated into best clinical decisions regarding behavioral treatments to improve health... - Interpersonal responses among sibling dyads tested for BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutationsHeidi A Hamann
Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164 4820, USA
Health Psychol 27:100-9. 2008..The purpose of this study was to compare sibling pairs with different combinations of BRCA1/BRCA2 test results on measures of affect, interpersonal responses, and physiological reactions... - An interpersonal analysis of adult attachment style: circumplex descriptions, recoiled developmental experiences, self-representations, and interpersonal functioning in adulthoodLinda C Gallo
San Diego State University, California 92120, USA
J Pers 71:141-81. 2003..These dimensions were associated with theoretically consistent characteristics, recollections of early experiences with parents, self-representations, and social functioning... - Effect of atropine on heart rate turbulenceJoseph E Marine
Section of Cardiology, Boston Medical Center and Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Am J Cardiol 89:767-9. 2002 - Smokers are at markedly increased risk of appropriate defibrillator shocks in a primary prevention populationJosé Mauricio Sánchez
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Heart Rhythm 3:443-9. 2006..Cigarette smoking is a known risk factor for sudden cardiac death (SCD). It is unknown whether smoking status affects implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy... - Association between short-term effectiveness of statins and long-term adherence to lipid-lowering therapyJoshua S Benner
ValueMedics Research, LLC, Falls Church, VA 22406, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 62:1468-75. 2005..The relationship between low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol reduction in the first 3 months of statin therapy and medication adherence during a 33-month follow-up period was studied... - Radiofrequency ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia using a novel magnetic guidance system compared with a conventional approachRoger Kerzner
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Heart Rhythm 3:261-7. 2006..CONCLUSION: The magnetic guidance system appears to have similar, and possibly improved, clinical efficacy compared with conventional catheter navigation for the treatment of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia... - Automatic measurement of atrial pacing thresholds in dual-chamber pacemakers: clinical experience with atrial capture managementJohannes Sperzel
Kerckhoff Klinik, Kardiologie, Benekestrasse 2 8, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
Heart Rhythm 2:1203-10. 2005..The Medtronic EnPulse pacemaker incorporates the new atrial capture management (ACM) algorithm to automatically measure atrial capture thresholds and subsequently manage atrial pacing outputs... - Reduction of RV pacing by continuous optimization of the AV intervalGoran Milasinovic
Pacemaker Center, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Pacing Clin Electrophysiol 29:406-12. 2006..This prospective, multicenter study compared the percentage of ventricular pacing with and without AV interval extension...
Research Grants
- HOSTILITY, MARITAL INTERACTION AND HEALTH IN AGINGTimothy Smith; Fiscal Year: 2004..g., fluid and crystallized intelligence). The long-term goal of the research is to identify potentially modifiable determinants of cardiovascular risk, marital adjustment, and cognitive aging in adulthood. ..
- Cardiovascular-Oxytocin Links in Social InteractionTimothy Smith; Fiscal Year: 2005..Explication of the psychobiology of social support and related psychosocial risk factors in personal relationships could guide the refinement of risk reducing, preventive interventions. ..