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Smoking and Type A behaviour
Author(s) -
OYEFESO ADENEKAN O.,
ODEYALE MARGARET A.
Publication year - 1991
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.1467-9450.1991.tb00855.x
Subject(s) - psychology , aggression , incidence (geometry) , type a and type b personality theory , demography , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , personality , sociology , optics , physics
This study examines the relationship between Type A behaviour and smoking. Data were gathered from a random sample of 100 undergraduate male daily smokers, with a mean age of 21.2 years (SD = 2.72), using the Type A Behaviour Scale (Bortner and Rosenman, 1967). Results reveal that Type A smokers are heavier daily consumers of cigarettes than Type B smokers ( t = 2.90, p < 0.01). The observed relationship between smoking and Type A behaviour remains significant even when the influence of aggression in partialled out. The need to further investigate the interplay of genetic and non‐genetic predispositions, and smoking in the incidence of coronary heart diseases (CHD) is suggested.