Personality,cancer and cardiovascular disease: A causal analysis

This study attempts to investigate the relationship between personality, stress and disease, particularly cancer and cardiovascular disease, both from the correlational and the causal points of view. It is concluded that there is good ecidence linking these diseases with different patterns of personality, and that these links suggest a causal relation. Hypotheses are suggested as to the nature of these causal relations, and it is also suggested that these hypotheses can be used to good advantage in constructing effective methods of behaviour therapy, both prophylactic and curative.