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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Type A behavior"”.
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Childrearing practices associated with playfulness and Type A behavior in children
… practices, children‘s levels of playfulness, and Type A behaviors. Parents of 83 children in grades kindergarten, two, and four completed a Q-sort on childrearing behaviors. The children‘s teachers completed rating scales for playfulness and Type A behaviors. Results indicated that there were no …
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Construct validation of the type A behavior pattern in children: the importance of anger and achievement striving
The validity of the Type A construct for children was empirically examined in the present study. The multi-trait, multi-method construct validation strategy was used to determine if the convergent, concurrent, and discriminant validities of the Type A construct would be supported. Constructs used …
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Cardiovascular reactivity in men as a function of masculine gender role stress, Type-A behavior, and hostility
… through which psychological variables such as Type-A behavior and hostility may increase one's risk of coronary heart disease. A major underlying assumption of the dissertation is that the same gender-role socialization which leads to MGRS may also underlie development of Type-A behavior and …
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Teachers' appraisal of children's school adjustment: its relationship to children's behavioral styles, self-esteem and parents' valuing styles
… school adjustment and children's self-esteem, behavioral styles, and the valuing styles of parents. Subjects were 75 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade children from middle-class families in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area who were subjectively rated by teachers (n=8) as best adjusted …
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Behavioral assessment of interpersonal skill among Type A and B college students
The Type A behavior pattern (TABP) is a coronary-prone response style characterized by intense ambition, competition, preoccupation with deadlines, and time-urgency. Anger may be the most detrimental aspect of the overall behavior pattern, but few studies have examined how Type As display anger in …
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An Exploratory Analysis of the Relationship Between Stress and Wellness for Public Leisure Service Managers
… were no differences in stress levels between Type A and Type B behavior pattern managers. This finding indicated that behavior pattern was not a mediator of stress levels as described in the literature and utilized in many occupational stress models. Further, leisure services managers …
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The effects of vicarious reinforcement on Type A and Type B children in a competitive situation
… by past researchers to produce two different types of effects: 1) facilitative, or 2) debilitative when children coact in a more competitive situation. Since Type A children have been found to engage in more comparison processes and are more competitive, the purpose of the present study was to …
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Anger and Aggression in Organizations: Antecedents, Behavioral Components, and Consequences
Antecedents, behavioral components, and outcomes of aggression in organizations were studied via questionnaires (n = 366), structured interviews (n = 74), and specific incident reports (n = 118). Data obtained from employees in three organizations assessed organizational and individual differences …
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Co-variation of blood pressure and mood in the natural environment
… may also lead to difficulty in timing cognitive-behavioral interventions to coincide with periods when blood pressure is most elevated. The goals of the current study were (a) to determine if a laboratory relaxation procedure would be capable of discriminating those individuals who generally have …
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Stress and the coronary-prone behavior pattern in working women
Although the Type A behavior pattern (TABP) is firmly established as a risk factor for coronary heart disease, it is neither well understood from a psychological perspective nor is it well understood in women. The present study attempts to describe the TABP in a population of working women. The …
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Goal origin: effects of initial goal origin and shifts in origin on behavioral and subjective responses
… the effects of goal attributes on subsequent behavior and performance, with consistently positive findings. However, there are few studies of goal processes, i.e., how reactions to goal origin and subsequent shifts in goal origin are exhibited in behavioral and subjective domains. The present …