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Type A behaviour and time urgency: Perception of time adjectives
Author(s) -
Mueser Kim T.,
Yarnold Paul R.,
Bryant Fred B.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1987.tb02740.x
Subject(s) - psychology , type a and type b personality theory , perception , time perception , likert scale , social psychology , point (geometry) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , personality , mathematics , geometry , neuroscience
Relations between time perception and Type A behaviour were investigated. Extreme Type A ( n = 26) and B ( n = 28) male college undergraduates rated the appropriateness of 158 adjectives as descriptors of time. Adjectives were independently rated using seven‐point Likert ‘speed’ and ‘energy’ scales. Analyses showed that Type As rate adjectives low in speed and energy as less descriptive of time than Type Bs and vice versa.