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The Time‐Urgency Component of the Type A Behavior Pattern: Time Pressure and Performance 1
Author(s) -
Bingham Dianne,
Hailey B. Jo
Publication year - 1989
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.1559-1816.1989.tb00065.x
Subject(s) - type a and type b personality theory , anagram , type (biology) , psychology , component (thermodynamics) , task (project management) , measure (data warehouse) , social psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , statistics , computer science , mathematics , data mining , physics , thermodynamics , ecology , management , personality , economics , biology
We investigated the effects of time pressure on the performance of Type A and Type B individuals. We predicted that Type As would perform more poorly than Type Bs on an anagram task during a timed condition, but not during an untimed condition. Subjects were 40 female undergraduates and the Jenkins Activity Survey was used to measure Type A behavior. The results confirmed our hypothesis. Type As made significantly more errors than Type Bs when timed, but not when untimed. Implications of these findings and the time‐urgency component of the Type A behavior pattern are discussed.