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Can and should type A behaviour be changed?

Author(s) -

Derek Johnston

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

postgraduate medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.568

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1469-0756

pISSN - 0032-5473

DOI - 10.1136/pgmj.62.730.785

Subject(s) - medicine , hostility , type a and type b personality theory , psychological intervention , coronary heart disease , disease , cardiology , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , clinical psychology

Both Type A behaviour and the component of hostility can be reduced by a number of different psychological interventions and such reductions are associated with reduced cardiac morbidity in patients with coronary heart disease. Reductions in Type A behaviour are not associated with significant changes in other risk factors nor with unwanted side effects such as reduced professional effectiveness.

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