Factores Psicosociales y Enfermedad Cardiovascular: Los trabajos que se indican a continuación son de lectura obligatoria, con independencia del bloque temático que se elija para investigar

• King, L.A., y Hicks, J.A. (2009). Detecting and constructing meaning in life events. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 4, 317-330.
• Kubzansky, L.D. y Kawachi, I. (2000). Going to the heart of the matter: do negative emotions cause coronary heart disease?. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 48, 323-337.
• Wielgosz, A.T., y Nolan, R.P. (2000). Biobehavioral factors in the context of ischemic cardiovascular diseases. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 48, 339-345.
   

Bloques temáticos:

Depresión y Enfermedad Cardiovascular:

• Appels, A. (1997). Depression and coronary heart disease: observations and questions. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 43, 443-452.
• Everson-Rose, S.A., House, J.S., & Mero, R.P. (2004). Depressive symptoms and mortality risk in a national sample: Confounding effects of health status. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 823-830.
• Lespérance, F., y Frasure-Smith, N. (2000). Depression in patients with cardiac disease: A practical review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 48, 379-391.
• Lett, H.S., Blumenthal, J.A., Babyak, M.A., Sherwood, A., Strauman, T., Robins, C., y Newman, M.F. (2004). Depression as a risk factor for coronary artery disease: Evidence, mechanisms, and treatment. Psychosomatic Medicine, 66, 305-315.
• Patten, S.B., Williams, J.V.A., Lavorato, D.H., Campbell, N.R.C., Eliasziw, M., y Campbell, T.S. (2009). Major depression as a risk factor for high blood pressure: Epidemiologic evidence from a national longitudinal study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 273-279.
• Rueda, B., y Pérez García, A.M. (2006). A prospective study of the effects of psychological resources and depression in essential hypertension. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 129-140.

Cansancio Vital y Enfermedad Cardiovascular:

• Appels, A. (1989). Loss of control, vital exhaustion and coronary heart disease. En A. Steptoe y A. Appels (Eds.), Stress, personal control and health (pp.215-235). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
• Appels, A., Kop, W.J., y Schouten, E. (2000). The nature of the depressive symptomatology preceding myocardial infarction. Behavioral Medicine, 26, 86-89.
• Bages, N., Falger, P.R.J., Pérez, M.G., y Appels, A. (2000). Vital exhaustion measures and their associations with coronary heart disease risk factors in a sample of Spanish-speakers. Psychology and Health, 15, 787-799.
• Kopp, M.S., Falger, P.R.J., Appels, A. y Szedmák, S. (1998). Depressive symptomatology and vital exhaustion are differentially related to behavioural risk factors for coronary artery disease. Psychosomatic Medicine, 60, 752-758.
• Kudielka, B.M., von Känel, R., y Fischer, J.E. (2004). The interralationship of psychosocial risk factors for coronary artery disease in working population: Do we measure distinct or overlapping psychological concepts?. Behavioral Medicine, 30, 35-43.
• Pedersen S.S., Denollet, J., Daemen, J., van de Sande, M., de Jaegere, P.T., Serruys, P.W., Erdman, R.A.M., Erdman, R.A.M., y van Domburg, R. T. (2007). Fatigue, depressive symptoms, and hopelessness as predictors of adverse clinical events following percutaneous coronary intervention with paclitaxel-eluting stents. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 62, 455-461. 

Adaptación a la Enfermedad Cardiovascular:

• Holahan, C.K., Holahan, C.J., y Suzuki, R. (2008). Purposiveness, physical activity, and perceived health in cardiac patients. Disability and Rehabilitation, 30, 1772-1778.
• McCracken, L.M. (1998). Learning to live with the pain: acceptance of pain predicts adjustmen in persons with chronic pain. Pain, 74, 21-27.
• Nakamura, Y.M., y Orth, U. (2005). Acceptance as a coping reaction: Adaptive or not?. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 64, 281-292.
• Park, C.L., Malone, M.R., Suresh, D.P., y Rosen, R. I. (2008). Coping, meaning in life, and quality of life in congestive heart failure patients. Quality of Life Research, 17, 21-26.
• Steger, M.F., Frazier, P., Oishi, S., y Kaler, M. (2006). The meaning in life questionnaire: Assessing the presence of and search for meaning in life. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 53, 80-93.
• Thornhill, K., Lyons, A.C., Nouwen, A., y Lip, G.Y.H. (2008). Experiences of living with congestive heart failure: A qualitative study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 155-175.

Diferencias de Género y Enfermedad Cardiovascular:

• Abbey, S.E., y Stewart, D.E. (2000). Gender and psychosomatic aspects of ischemic heart disease. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 48, 417-423.
• Czajkowski, S.M. (1998). Psychosocial aspects of women´s recovery from heart disease. En K.O. Orth-Gómer, M.A. Chesney, y N.K. Wenger (Eds.), Women, stress and heart disease (pp.151-164). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Ong, L., Irvine, J., Nolan, R., Cribbie, R., Harris, L., Newman, D., Mangat, I., & Dorian, P. (2006). Gender differences and quality of life in atrial fibrillation: The mediating role of depression. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 769-774.
• Orth-Gómez, K. (1998). Psychosocial risk factor profile in women with coronary heart disease. En K.O. Orth-Gómer, M.A. Chesney, y N.K. Wenger (Eds.), Women, stress and heart disease (pp.24-38). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Ruston, A., y Clayton, J. (2002). Coronary heart disease: Women´s assessment of risks: A qualitative study. Health, Risk & Society, 4, 125-137.
• Sunmin, L., Kawachi, I. Colditz, G., y Berkman, L. (2003). Caregiving to children and grandchildren and risk of coronary heart disease in women. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 1939-1941.