Personalities.
- Created by: Lucy Hodgson
- Created on: 03-06-13 12:58
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- Personalities.
- Type A Personality.
- Time Pressured - Working against the clock, multi-tasking and unhappy doing nothing.
- Competitive - always play to win at work and games, achievement measured in materials.
- Anger - self-critical, hostile, anger directed internally.
- Friedman and Rosenman.
- Conducted a study to see if type A personality was linked with cardiovascular disease.
- Using interviews 3200 men were categorised as type A. At the start of the process all men were healthy.
- After 8 1/2 years, the men were revisited and it was found that 257 men had developed CHD. These results were significant even when smoking and obesity were taken into account.
- Evaluation Points.
- Can't be generalised.
- Large sample size
- Interviews are time consuming.
- Hard to replicate
- Correlational studies to not show causaltiy
- Reductionist.
- Social desirablity
- Dated.
- Kobassa created the idea of hardiness.
- He said through control, challenge and commitment people are of hardiness.
- Control - Hardy people see themselves as being in control of their lives.
- Challenge- Hardy people see problems as a challenges to overcome , not stressors.
- Commitment - Hardy people believe they have a sense of purpose.
- Type A Personality.
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