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Incremental Validity of Time Urgency and Other Type A Subcomponents in Predicting Behavioral and Health Criteria 1
Author(s) -
CONTE JEFFREY M.,
SCHWENNEKER HEATHER HONIG,
DEW ANGELA F.,
ROMANO DONNA M.
Publication year - 2001
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.1559-1816.2001.tb02748.x
Subject(s) - psychology , type a and type b personality theory , irritability , construct validity , construct (python library) , incremental validity , social psychology , psychometrics , developmental psychology , anxiety , psychiatry , personality , computer science , programming language
Although previous studies have revealed relationships between Type A behavior pattern (TABP) measures and behavioral indexes of time urgency, such studies utilized global TABP measures that have been criticized for their lack of construct validity. The present study linked recently developed measures of time urgency and other TABP subcomponents (e. g., impatience‐irritability) to observable temporal behaviors and health outcomes. In a sample of 194 undergraduate students, the results indicated that the TABP subcomponents provided incremental validity above the contribution of the global TABP measure in predicting behavioral and health criteria. Applied implications and future directions for research on time urgency and other TABP subcomponents are discussed.