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Type A Personality Characteristics and the Effect on Individual and Team Academic Performance
Author(s) -
Watson Warren E.,
Minzenmayer Tracey,
Bowler Matt
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.0021-9029.2006.00033.x
Subject(s) - psychology , hostility , social psychology , personality , aggression , team composition , personality type , applied psychology
Type A personality has been conceptualized in part as high need for achievement combined with aggression, hostility, and self‐esteem issues. In teams of undergraduate business students, high levels of Type A personality significantly correlated with high levels of depression and high levels of social monitoring; and negatively correlated with social desirability, communality, and individual performance across time. In team settings, the more Type A's were balanced in a team with low Type A's, the more there was team commitment and the more team synergy behaviors; while if teams had a greater number of Type A's, there was more individualistic behavior, and team project scores were lower.