Stability of the Sociodemographic Variance of the Type a Behavior Pattern in Finnish Adolescents and Young Adults

Räikkönen, Katri

doi:10.1080/00224545.1990.9924592

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“…One reason is that research on Type A behaviour is characterized by a lack of clear psychological conceptualization. The definition of Type A refers to a multi-kangas-Jarvinen and Jokinen, 1989), and predictive validity (Raikkonen, 1990) have been shown to be very high.…”

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Type A behaviour and types of competitor in young adults

Keltikangas‐Järvinen

Räikkönen

1991

Eur J Pers

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A previous study (Keltikangas-Jarvinen and Raikkonen, 1990a) discovered two diflerent Type A competitors among adolescents, i.e. adjusted and maladjusted competitors. This paper examines whether the same result can be replicated in older age groups. Type A behaviour, self-esteem, locus of control, and achievement striving were measured in 935 randomly selected young adults. Two dizerent kinds of Type A competitor were found, i.e. aggressive and hard-driving. Neither of these two could be called 'adjusted'. Instead, adjusted and maladjusted forms of striving for achievement were found which adequately described the previously found adjusted and maladjusted types of competitors. The results suggest that achievement striving is a very essential dimension of Type A behaviour. However, it may play a diflerent role in diflerent psychological contexts.L. Keltikangas-Jarvinen and K. Raikkonen dimensional concept. Recent research suggests that probably only some dimensions are pathogenic (Dembroski and Costa, 1987;Matthews, 1982).Our previous findings suggested that in adolescents Type A behaviour is divided into two different factors, both measuring competitiveness and making an equal contribution to the global score. The first was Impatience-Aggression. It consisted of aggressiveness, competitiveness, and impatience; and was related to a low level of self-esteem; an external locus of control, i.e. the belief that one's life is controlled by chance or powerful others; perseverance; and, in spite of high competitiveness, to a low level of self-set goals.The other factor was called LeadershipSense of Responsibility. This factor coincided with a tendency to be elected as a leader by participants, a sense of responsibility, social activity, and competitiveness. Leadershipsense of Responsibility was associated with high self-esteem; an internal locus of control, i.e. the feeling that one's life is regulated by one's own decisions; and high self-set achievement goals (Keltikangas-Jarvinen and Raikkonen, 1990a).The results of a second study showed that Impatience-Aggression was related to a high level of somatic CHD risk factors while Leadershipsense of Responsibility was consistently associated with a low risk (Keltikangas-Jarvinen and Raikkonen, 1989).The purpose of this study was to examine whether the different kinds of Type A competitors, i.e. social competitors with high self-esteem and aggressive competitors with low self-esteem, could be identified in older age groups, i.e. in young adults. METHOD SubjectsThe subjects were 935 randomly selected, healthy Finnish young adults participating in the Finnish Multicenter Study on Atherosclerosis Precursors (Akerblom et al., 1985). Whereas the adolescents in the 12-and 15-year-old cohorts of the Multicenter Study were used in our previous examination (Keltikangas-Jarvinen and Raikkonen, 1989Raikkonen, , 1990a, the present sample consisted of three subgroups: the 18-, 21-and 24year-old cohorts from the same study. The numbers of subjects in the subgroups are given in Table 1. T...

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Type A behaviour and types of competitor in young adults

Keltikangas‐Järvinen

Räikkönen

1991

Eur J Pers

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Mothers With Hostile, Type A Predisposing Child-Rearing Practices

Räikkönen

Keltikangas‐Järvinen

1992

The Journal of Genetic Psychology

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The authors examined characteristics of Finnish mothers (N = 924) who use hostile child-rearing practices (i.e., they ignore the child, are punitive and irritable, and perceive the child as a burden), practices that have been shown (Räikkönen & Keltikangas-Järvinen, 1992) to predispose children to Type A behavior. The results of this study indicate that two factors--Type A behavior in the mothers and the mothers' sociodemographic background (low occupational status, low educational level and young age)--increase the probability of the mothers' treating their children in a hostile manner. Also, the mothers of boys in this study reported more hostile child-rearing practices than the mothers of girls did.

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Type A Behavior Pattern, Risky Driving Behaviors, and Serious Road Traffic Accidents: A Prospective Study of the GAZEL Cohort

Nabi¹,

Consoli²,

Chastang³

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American Journal of Epidemiology

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The type A behavior pattern (TABP), characterized by impatience, time urgency, and hostility, was originally developed in relation to coronary heart disease. Since 1986, there has been a debate on whether the TABP is also associated with risky driving behaviors leading to increased risks in road traffic accidents (RTAs). The authors examined prospectively the relation among risky driving behaviors, serious RTAs, and the TABP in a cohort of 20,000 French employees of Electricité de France-Gaz de France who were aged 39-54 years in 1993. A total of 11,965 participants were included in this study. The TABP was assessed in 1993 using the French version of the Bortner Rating Scale. Driving behaviors and serious RTAs were recorded in 2001. Sociodemographic and alcohol consumption data were available from the cohort's annual follow-up. The impact of the TABP on the risk of serious RTAs was assessed using the Cox proportional hazards regression model with time-dependent covariates. After adjustment for potential confounders, the risk for serious RTAs increased proportionally with TABP scores: hazard ratios were 1.29 (95% confidence interval: 1.03, 1.63) for intermediate-level scores and 1.48 (95% confidence interval: 1.16, 1.90) for high-level scores relative to low TABP scores. The authors concluded that type A drivers had an increased risk of RTAs. Implications of this finding for traffic safety are discussed.

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Stability of the Sociodemographic Variance of the Type a Behavior Pattern in Finnish Adolescents and Young Adults

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Type A behaviour and types of competitor in young adults

Type A behaviour and types of competitor in young adults

Mothers With Hostile, Type A Predisposing Child-Rearing Practices

Type A Behavior Pattern, Risky Driving Behaviors, and Serious Road Traffic Accidents: A Prospective Study of the GAZEL Cohort

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