DS14: DS14

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Description

Gender, age, and item scores on the DS14 questionnaire of 541 coronary artery disease patients.

Usage

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Format

A 541 by 16 matrix containing gender, age, and item scores on the DS14 questionnaire.

Details

The DS14 (Denollet, 2005) is the most accepted and widely used diagnostic instrument for the assessment of the type-D pattern. Type D (distressed) is defined as the joint tendency towards negative affectivity (e.g., worry, irritability, gloom) and social inhibition (e.g., reticence and a lack of self-assurance). DS14 contains 14 items, each having five ordered response categories (0 = completely disagree, 1 = disagree, 2 = agree nor disagree, 3 = agree, 4 = completely agree). Items 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, and 13 measure negative affectivity. Items 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11, and 14 measure social inhibition. Items 1 and 3 are negatively worded (indicated by an asterisk in the dimnames).

The data contain the gender (Male) of the patients (1 = male, 0 = female), the age (Age) of the patients in years, and the scores to DS14. Ten item scores are missing. Items 1 and 3 must be recoded before the data can beused meaningfully. The data have been used to investigate predictive value of social inhibition and negative affectivity for cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease (Denollet et al., 2013), to investigate the relation between Type D and inflammation and endothelial dysfunction' (van Dooren et al., 2016), and to investigate the relation between Type D and increased macrophage activity (Zuccarella-Hackl et al., 2016) These data have also been analyzed in papers on Mokken scale analysis (Sijtsma and Van der Ark, 2016; Straat et al., 2016).

Source

Data were kindly made available by J. Denollet from Tilburg University.

References

Denollet, J., Pedersen, S. S., Vrints, C. J., and Conraads, V. M. (2013). Predictive value of social inhibition and negative affectivity for cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease: the Type D personality construct. Psychosomatic Medicine, 75, 873-981.

van Dooren, F. E., Verhey, F. R., Pouwer, F., Schalkwijk, C. G., Sep, S. J., Stehouwer, C.D., Henry, R. M., Dagnelie, P. C., Schaper, N. C., Van der Kallen, C. J., Koster, A., Schram, M. T., and Denollet, J. (2016). Association of Type D personality with increased vulnerability to depression: Is there a role for inflammation or endothelial dysfunction? - The Maastricht Study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 189, 118-125.

Sijtsma, K., and Van der Ark, L. A. (2016). A tutorial on how to do a Mokken scale analysis on your test and questionnaire data. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. doi: 10.1111/bmsp.12078

Straat, J. H., van der Ark, L. A., and Sijtsma, K. (2016). Using conditional association to identify locally independent item sets. Methodology, 12, 117-123. doi: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000115

Zuccarella-Hackl, C., von K\"anel, R., Thomas, L., Kuebler, P., Schmid, J. P., Mattle. H. P., Mono, M. L., Rieben, R., Wiest, R., and Wirtz, P. H. (2016). Higher macrophage superoxide anion production in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients with Type D personality. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 68, 186-193.

See Also

recode, twoway

Examples

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data(DS14)

# Handle missing data and recode negatively worded items
X <- DS14[, 3 : 16]
X <- twoway(X)
X <- recode(X, c(1, 3))
head(X)

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