A psychometric investigation of two measures of Type A behaviour in a British sample

O'Looney, Barbara A.; Harding, Christina M.

doi:10.1016/0021-9681(85)90108-0

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“…Although the participants in this study were white, middle-class children, it is unlikely that the correspondence between the measures would improve significantly for any other group of children. This assertion is based on the research on the measurement of Type A behavior in adults, which has assessed a wide range of participant populations and which continues to find weak correspondence (Byrne, Rosenman, Schiller, & Chesney, 1985; Chesney et al, 1981; Matthews et al, 1982; Meininger, 1985; O’Looney & Harding, 1985). The results of this study, with the research on the adult measures, suggest further that the several other youth measures of Type A are also unlikely to be strongly associated and that they should not be considered interchangeable.…”

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Comparison of the Matthews Youth Test for Health and the Hunter-Wolf A-B Rating Scale: Measures of Type A behavior in children.

Jackson¹,

Levine²

1987

Health Psychology

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This study evaluated the extent to which two youth measures of Type A behavior--the Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) and the Hunter-Wolf A-B Rating Scale--similarly assess the Type A construct. Data from 25 elementary teachers and from 300 of their students revealed that these scales are weakly correlated and that the concordance of their Type A-Type B classifications was only slightly above that expected by chance. Weak agreement was found even when teachers and students rated the same Type A behaviors, which suggests that variability in content was not the principal reason for the lack of agreement between these measures. The major implication of this study is that the MYTH and the Hunter-Wolf scale should not be considered interchangeable measures of Type A behavior. The study reveals that investigators' choice of a Type A measure may strongly affect the nature of their research findings and may inhibit the integration of their data with data from other investigators who employ different measures of the Type A construct. It is recommended that, if multiple measures cannot be used in a study, the investigator employ the MYTH.

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Comparison of the Matthews Youth Test for Health and the Hunter-Wolf A-B Rating Scale: Measures of Type A behavior in children.

Jackson¹,

Levine²

1987

Health Psychology

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“…The values from the PHQ-15 and SCL-90 clearly do not span the wide range present when considering all the measures, but with only a few values it’s impossible to determine if that is due to scale consistency or chance. A comparison of reliability as measured by Cronbach’s alpha suggests that the Enugu Somatization Scale (ESS; α = 0.932 [ 63 ]) and the SCL-90-R ( α = 0.89–0.93 [ 69 ]) had the highest reliability in their respective samples, and the Framingham Type A Behavior Pattern Scale had the lowest (FTAS; α = 0.68 [ 64 ]). The ESS also had high validity (intrinsic validity = 0.954 [ 63 ]), as did the SCL-90-R (Comparative Fit Index = 0.967–0.995 [ 69 ]]; the specificity of the Screening for Somatoform Disorders (SOMS-2) was also comparatively high, at 95.5% [ 71 ].…”

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Prevalence, characteristics and measurement of somatic symptoms related to mental health in medical students: a scoping review

Hulett

Sherwin

et al. 2023

Annals of Medicine

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Introduction Somatic symptoms related to mental health in medical students are under-researched, with nothing on the topic being published in the United States in over three decades. This scoping review is the first of its kind to explore the prevalence, type and severity of somatic symptoms induced by stress, anxiety, depression and burnout amongst medical students, with the objective of describing the significance and breadth of this issue. Methods PRISMA-ScR guidelines were used to guide this review. A comprehensive search was performed of 22 databases, followed by bibliographic and hand searching. Inclusion criteria were published, peer-reviewed articles with a sample of medical students and at least one measure of somatic symptoms related to mental health, in English or with an English-language translation. Excluded were review, companion and editorial articles. Coding was done by an experienced coder trained in systematic review techniques. Two authors reviewed each article. Results Twenty-nine articles met inclusion criteria, representing 16 countries, 31 schools/teaching hospitals and 9,887 medical students. The prevalence of somatic symptoms ranged from 5.7 to 80.1%, and somatic symptoms were overwhelmingly found to be significantly correlated with mental ill-health. Somatic symptoms included back pain, neck pain, headaches, sleep disturbances and functional gastrointestinal disorders. Eleven different outcome measures were used, with varying degrees of validity and reliability, which were compared and assessed. Conclusions Somatic symptoms appear strongly correlated with mental ill-health in medical students, and are likely highly prevalent. This review highlights the need for further research on somatic symptoms of mental ill-health in medical students, particularly in the United States, and the addition of larger, multi-institutional cohorts to expand our understanding of prevalence, incidence and inciting factors of somatic symptoms. Longitudinal studies tracking somatic symptoms’ effect on career trajectory and professional burnout levels are also needed. Finally, future research should explore interventions for reducing physical symptom burden in medical students.

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“…We also examined how type A subjects are characterized according to the Italian version of the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS). O'Looney and Harding [ 15] and O'Looney et al [ 16] concluded that the assessment of type A behavior with JAS requires some caution, possibly because the SI can assess both content and behavior. The JAS has been used in a number of pre vious Italian studies [17][18][19] but never with the SI to assess TABP.…”

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Neuroticism and Type A Behavior Pattern in Healthy Italian Blue-Collar Workers

Sanavio

Bertolotti

Vidotto

et al. 1996

Psychother Psychosom

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Background: Even if type A behavior pattern is not a typical pattern of specific social class, in Italy no research study has been conducted on blue-collar workers. In the present study we sought to identify differences in the psychological profiles of type A and non-type A Italian blue-collar subjects. Methods: Seventy-three healthy male blue-collar workers, aged 35-59 years, completed the CBA-2.0 Primary Scales (a battery of standardized questionnaires) and the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS). Following the Structured Interview each subject was classified as type A1 A2, X, or B. In the present study, type X and B subjects were considered within the group referred to as type ‘non-A’. Results: The analysis of variance showed that the A1 subjects had higher neuroticism scores than the A2 and non-A subjects but revealed no differences in extraversion, anxiety, depression, obsession-compulsion scores. In the JAS only the ‘speed and impatience’ scale differentiated the three groups: the highest scores being obtained by the A1 subjects. Among the JAS scales, only correlations (Pearson) between speed and impatience, trait anxiety and neuroticism were found. Conclusion: In our Italian blue-collar sample, type A1 seems to define a subject with high neuroticism score. Finally, our results do not recommend the use of the JAS in Italy for measuring the type A behavior pattern.

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A psychometric investigation of two measures of Type A behaviour in a British sample

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

Comparison of the Matthews Youth Test for Health and the Hunter-Wolf A-B Rating Scale: Measures of Type A behavior in children.

Comparison of the Matthews Youth Test for Health and the Hunter-Wolf A-B Rating Scale: Measures of Type A behavior in children.

Prevalence, characteristics and measurement of somatic symptoms related to mental health in medical students: a scoping review

Neuroticism and Type A Behavior Pattern in Healthy Italian Blue-Collar Workers

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