The assessment of type a behavior and the prediction of coronary heart disease: A review

O'Looney, Barbara A.

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“…Therefore, a minimum score of 14 means extreme Type B and a maximum score of 98 means extreme Type A. The 14-item scale was found to display between 65 to 75 per cent agreement with the Structured Interview (O'Looney, 1984;Rustin, Dramaiz & Kittell, 1976). Correlations of .68 and .71 were also found between the JAS and the Bortner in Britain (Johnston & Shaper, 1983).…”

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Beliefs and fears underlying the Type A behaviour pattern in adolescents

Shahidi

1992

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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The present study was designed to test Price's (1983) cognitive social learning model of Type A in an adolescent population. A questionnaire measuring beliefs and fears thought to underlie Type A together with two measures of Type A (the Bortner scale and the student version of the Jenkins Activity Survey, SJAS) were administered to over 300 adolescents. Results showed that subscales measuring Type A beliefs and fears had acceptable levels of internal reliability and formed two separate components (beliefs and fears). Measures of beliefs and fears correlated significantly but modestly with measures of Type A thus providing some support for Price's cognitive social learning model. Furthermore, some striking sex differences were found. Results are discussed in terms of the implications of these beliefs and fears in studying the Type A behaviour pattern in children and adolescents and the modification of the behaviour pattern in the younger population.

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“…The Bortner scale has been widely used with adolescents (Steinberg, 1986;Wolf, Sklov, Wenzl, Hunter & Berenson, 1982) since it is an easy questionnaire to score and administer. Furthermore, the questions are easily understood by the subject (O'Looney, 1984).…”

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Beliefs and fears underlying the Type A behaviour pattern in adolescents

Shahidi

1992

British Journal of Medical Psychology

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The stress‐prone personality: A review of the research in the context of occupational stress

Taylor

Cooper

1989

Stress Med.

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This article reviews the recent research into personality predisposition in terms of stress, with particular reference to occupational contexts. We explore the work on type A behaviour, locus of control, the 'hardy' personality, extraversion/ neuroticism/ psychoticism and tension discharge rate. We attempt to highlight how these findings might be of use in understanding occupational stress. KEY WORDS-Personality, typeA. coronary disease, organizational stress, extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism 0748-8386/ 89/0 1001 7-1 I$05.50 0 1989

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Type A personality, work stress and psychological distress in Japanese adult employees

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To explore work stress–strain relations and the effect of Type A/B personality among Japanese adult employees, a questionnaire survey was conducted in two branches of a large bank in Hokkaido, Japan. Data were obtained from 256 adult employees (158 males and 98 females). The questionnaire consisted of several scales concerning role stress, the 28‐item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ‐28), job dissatisfaction, the Jenkins Activity Survey, and others. While most of the variables differed across three subsamples (male clerks, males of chief clerk status or higher, and female clerks), both role overload and conflict were comparable. Role overload and conflict were highly associated with psychological distress, but role ambiguity showed a few significant correlations. Also, fewer significant correlations were found for Type A/B subscales. A moderated multiple regression analysis was carried out by subsample for each pair of role stress and Type A/B subscale for each psychological distress. A buffering effect of Type A/B was tested by considering the significance of its interaction term with role stress. As a whole global A tendency ie, high scores on the JAS‐A/B subscale would play a role as ‘buffer’, but high hard‐driving and competitive tendencies would play roles as both ‘buffer’ and ‘exaggerator’ according to the type of stress. Most of these results, however, were detected in the analyses of male clerks. Therefore, either buffering or exacerbating effects of Type A/B personality on stress–strain relations were recognized to vary between genders, across job positions, and/or across the types of stress at work and distress.

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The assessment of type a behavior and the prediction of coronary heart disease: A review

Cited by 6 publications

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Beliefs and fears underlying the Type A behaviour pattern in adolescents

Beliefs and fears underlying the Type A behaviour pattern in adolescents

The stress‐prone personality: A review of the research in the context of occupational stress

Type A personality, work stress and psychological distress in Japanese adult employees

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