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The Pittsburgh Battery for Cardiovascular Reactivity Assessment

Debski, T.T., Kamarck, T.W., Jennings, J.R., Young, L.P., Eddy, J.J., & Zhang, Y. (1991).  A computerized test battery for the assessment of cardiovascular reactivity.  International Journal of Biomedical Computing, 27, 277-289. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Jennings, J.R., Debski, T.T., Glickman-Weiss, E., Johnson, P.S., Eddy, M.J., & Manuck, S.B. (1992).  Reliable measure of behaviorally-evoked cardiovascular reactivity for a PC-based test battery:  Results from student and community samples.  Psychophysiology, 29, 17-28. Abstract

      Jennings, J.R., Kamarck, T.W., Stewart, C., Eddy, M., & Johnson, P. (1992).  Alternate cardiovascular baseline assessment techniques:  Vanilla or resting baseline.  Psychophysiology, 29, 742-750. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W. (1992).  Recent developments in cardiovascular reactivity:  Contributions from psychometric theory and social psychology.  Psychophysiology, 29, 491-503. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Jennings, J.R., Stewart, C.J., & Eddy, M.J. (1993).  Reliable responses to cardiovascular reactivity protocol:  A replication study in a bi-racial female sample.  Psychophysiology, 30, 627-634. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Jennings, J.R. & Manuck, S.B. (1993). Psychometric applications in the assessment of cardiovascular reactivity. Homeostasis in Health and Disease, 34, 229-243.

Manuck, S.B., Kamarck, T.W., Kasprowicz, A.S., & Waldstein, S.R. (1993).  Stability and patterning of behaviorally-evoked cardiovascular reactivity.  In J. Blascovich & E.S. Katkin (Eds.), Cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stress and disease (pp. 111-134).  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association.

Manuck, S.B. (1994). Cardiovascular reactivity in cardiovascular disease: “Once more unto the breach.”  International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1, 4-31.

Kamarck, T.W., Jennings, J.R., Pogue-Geile, M. & Manuck, S.B. (1994). A multidimensional measurement model for cardiovascular reactivity: Stability and cross-validation in two adult samples. Health Psychology, 13, 471-478. Abstract

Jennings, J.R., Kamarck, T.W., Manuck, S.B., Everson, S.A., Kaplan, G. & Salonen, J.T. (1997). Aging or disease? Cardiovascular reactivity in Finnish men over the middle years. Psychology and Aging, 12, 225-238. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Everson, S.A., Kaplan, G.A., Manuck, S.B., Jennings, J.R., Salonen, R.S. & Salonen, J.T. (1997). Exaggerated blood pressure responses during mental stress are associated with enhanced carotid atherosclerosis in middle aged Finnish men: Findings from the Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Study. Circulation, 96, 3842-3848. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Debski, T.T. & Manuck, S.B. (2000). Enhancing the lab-to-life generalizability of cardiovascular reactivity using multiple occasions of measurement. Psychophysiology, 37, 1-10. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Manuck, S.B., Sutton Tyrrell, K., & Muldoon, M.F. (2002). Gender differences in the association between cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress and carotid artery atherosclerosis: The Pittsburgh Healthy Heart Project. Circulation, 106 (supplement), II-739.

Kamarck, T.W. & Lovallo, W. (2003). Cardiovascular reactivity to psychological challenge: Conceptual and measurement considerations. Psychosomatic Medicine, 65, 9-21. Abstract

Kamarck, TW, Schwartz, JE, Janicki, DL, Shiffman, S & Raynor, DA (2003). Correspondence between laboratory and ambulatory measures of cardiovascular reactivity: A multilevel modeling approach. Psychophysiology, 40, 675-683. Abstract

Jennings, J.R., Kamarck, T.W., Everson-Rose, S.A., Kaplan, G.A., Manuck, S.B. & Salonen, J.T. (2004). Exaggerated blood pressure responses during mental stress are prospectively related to enhanced carotid atherosclerosis in middle-aged Finnish men. Circulation, 110, 2198-2203. Abstract

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The Diary of Ambulatory Behavioral States

Kamarck, T.W., Shiffman, S., Smithline, L., Goodie, J., Paty, J., Gnys, M. & Jong, J. (1998). The effects of task strain, social conflict, and emotional activation on ambulatory cardiovascular activity: Daily life consequences of 'recurring stress' in a multiethnic adult sample. Health Psychology, 17, 17-29. Abstract

Gump, B.B., Polk, D.E., Kamarck, T.W. & Shiffman, S. (2001). Partner interactions are associated with reduced blood pressure in the natural environment: Ambulatory monitoring evidence from a healthy, multiethnic adult sample. Psychosomatic Medicine, 63, 423-433. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Janicki, D.L., Shiffman, S., Polk, D.E., Muldoon, M.F., Liebenauer, L.L. & Schwartz, J.E. (2002). Psychosocial demands and ambulatory blood pressure: A field assessment approach. Physiology and Behavior, 77, 699-704.

Kamarck, TW, Schwartz, JE, Janicki, DL, Shiffman, S & Raynor, DA (2003). Correspondence between laboratory and ambulatory measures of cardiovascular reactivity: A multilevel modeling approach. Psychophysiology, 40, 675-683. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W., Muldoon, M.F., Shiffman, S., Sutton-Tyrrell, K., Gwaltney, C. & Janicki, D.L. (2004). Experiences of Demand and Control in daily life as correlates of subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in a healthy older sample. Health Psychology, 23, 24-32. Abstract

Taylor, T.R., Kamarck, T.W., & Shiffman, S. (2004). Validation of the Detroit Area Study Discrimination Scale in a community sample of older African-American adults: The Pittsburgh Healthy Heart Project. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 11, 88-94. Abstract

Kamarck, T.W.,  Schwartz, J., Shiffman, S., Muldoon, M.F., Sutton-Tyrrell, K. & Janicki, D. (in press). Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular risk: What is the role of daily experience? Journal of Personality.

Kamarck, T.W., Shiffman, S., Smithline, L., Goodie, J., Thompson, H., Ituarte, P.H., Jong, J., Pro, V., Paty, J., Kassel, J., Gnys, M. & Perz, W. (1998). The Diary of Ambulatory Behavioral States: A New Approach to the Assessment of Ambulatory Cardiovascular Activity (pp. 163-193). In D. Krantz & A. Baum (Eds.): Perspectives in Behavioral Medicine: Technology and Methodology in Behavioral Medicine. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kamarck, T.W., Shiffman, S., Muldoon, M.F. & Sutton-Tyrrell, K. (in press). Ecological momentary assessment as a resource for social epidemiology. In Stone, Shiffman, Atienza & Nebeling (Eds.), The science of real-time data capture: Self-report in health research. Oxford University Press.

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