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A Descriptive Profile of Type B Personality
Author(s) -
Thomas Sandra Paul
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1986.tb00531.x
Subject(s) - type a and type b personality theory , personality psychology , personality , meaning (existential) , type d personality , medical prescription , psychology , personality type , disease , clinical psychology , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , nursing
Psychologic, behavioral, sociodemographic and environmental variables were examined in a battery of self‐report instruments administered to 98 subjects who had agreed to participate in the second phase of a longitudinal investigation of health in middle adulthood. Type B individuals, in contrast to coronary‐prone Type A personalities, experience less stress as a result of the frustrations of daily life and feel less pressured by too many things to do. They are more likely to view life as a joy and express fewer concerns about the meaning of life than do Type As. Type Bs in midlife tend to be married, employed full time, satisfied with their work, and in better general health. They tend to have fewer days of illness, visits to physicians, hospitalizations, surgical procedures, and prescriptions. Although coronary disease is known to be relatively rare in Type Bs, their advantaged general health status has not been recognized.