Table 6.

Studies reporting associations between mastery and evidence of large vessel disease from imaging methods.

Study	Participants	Design	Mastery Construct	Mastery Measure	CVD Outcome	Results/Findings	Effect Size (Cohen’s d)
Matthews et al., 2006	155 healthy women, mean age 65±2 years	Cross- sectional	Personal Mastery	Pearlin and Schooler Mastery Scale	Electron beam tomography scan of coronary and aortic calcification	High aortic calcification was associated with low mastery	d = −.55
Seeman, 1991	119 men and 40 women, ages 30-70 who were referred for angiography because of suspected CAD. They were diagnosed with angina pectoris, CAD, recent MI, asymptomatic CAD	Cross- sectional	Personal Mastery	Pearlin and Schooler Mastery Scale	Extent of coronary atherosclerosis determined from angiography films	Higher mastery was an independent predictor of severe coronary atherosclerosis. Mastery was unassociated with Type A behavior pattern.	d = .69 (with mastery as a dichotomized variable) d = .14 (with mastery as a continuous variable)

Note. CAD = coronary artery disease; MI = myocardial infarction