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Type A behavior and its relation to personality variables in Swedish male and female university students
Author(s) -
LUNDBERG ULF
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1980.tb00352.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , hostility , extraversion and introversion , aggression , type a and type b personality theory , personality , anxiety , population , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , demography , psychiatry , sociology
A questionnaire based on the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS), given to 181 male and 280 female Swedish university students, showed that females had significantly higher Type A scores than males. Three factors were extracted by factor analysis, two of which, “speed and impatience” and “hard‐driving”, corresponded to two of the factors obtained by JAS in an American population of employed men (Zyzanski & Jenkins, 1970). The third factor was tentatively termed “engagement‐involvement”. Twelve male and 12 female subjects from opposite ends of the distribution were compared in terms of 22 personality variables measured by questionnaires. It was found that Type A subjects of both sexes scored higher on scales measuring anxiety‐proneness, aggression‐hostility, extraversion and neuroticism.