An Investigation To See If There Is A D
An Investigation To See If There Is A Difference between Type A and personalities (as classified by Friedman and Roseman’s 1974 Questionnaire And Their Physiological Response To A Mildly Stressful Activity
CONTENTS
Introduction ……………………………………………………… page 1
Aim ……………………………………………………….page 1
Hypotheses ………………………………………………………page 1
Method ………………………………………………………page 1
Participants ………………………………………………………page 2
Materials …………………………………………………........page 2
Procedure ……………………………………………………….page 2
Results ………………………………………………………page 3
Discussion ……………………………………………………….page 4
Conclusion ………………………………………………………page 5
References ………………………………………………………page 6 Appendices Raw data ………………..B Questionnaire………….A Dot-to-Dot……………C
Introduction
The experiment with Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman1974 covered a nine year period using 3000 men aged 39 – 59. Type A personalities tend to be more ambitious, competitive, time-conscious and tend to be perfectionists which therefore leads to a higher stressful lifestyle, often are high achieving at work and therefore they predicted that they would have a higher predisposition to suffering from cardiac disease than those of a Type B personality who are more relaxed and easy going.
Over the period it was determined that 70% of the men that died were Type A personalities.
Type A personalities are often people who are high achieving as a result of their personality traits.
If this theory is looked at from a cardiology angle the theory was not widely accepted as there has been no definitive evidence that there is a link between high stress lifestyles and a pre-disposition to heart disease (does not take into consideration a genetic predisposition), however if we look at the classification of types of people the use of the Type A and Type B personality has become widely
CONTENTS
Introduction ……………………………………………………… page 1
Aim ……………………………………………………….page 1
Hypotheses ………………………………………………………page 1
Method ………………………………………………………page 1
Participants ………………………………………………………page 2
Materials …………………………………………………........page 2
Procedure ……………………………………………………….page 2
Results ………………………………………………………page 3
Discussion ……………………………………………………….page 4
Conclusion ………………………………………………………page 5
References ………………………………………………………page 6 Appendices Raw data ………………..B Questionnaire………….A Dot-to-Dot……………C
Introduction
The experiment with Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman1974 covered a nine year period using 3000 men aged 39 – 59. Type A personalities tend to be more ambitious, competitive, time-conscious and tend to be perfectionists which therefore leads to a higher stressful lifestyle, often are high achieving at work and therefore they predicted that they would have a higher predisposition to suffering from cardiac disease than those of a Type B personality who are more relaxed and easy going.
Over the period it was determined that 70% of the men that died were Type A personalities.
Type A personalities are often people who are high achieving as a result of their personality traits.
If this theory is looked at from a cardiology angle the theory was not widely accepted as there has been no definitive evidence that there is a link between high stress lifestyles and a pre-disposition to heart disease (does not take into consideration a genetic predisposition), however if we look at the classification of types of people the use of the Type A and Type B personality has become widely
References: Meyer Friedman (1996),”Type A Behaviour; its diagnosis and treatment”. www.personality-testing.info/tests/AB.php. . McLeod, S