Personality Factors
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- Created on: 24-05-13 14:18
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- Personality Factors
- Type A
- Struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Competitiveness and achievement striding
- Impatient and time urgency
- Hostile and aggressive
- Impatient and time urgency
- Competitiveness and achievement striding
- Lead to raise blood pressure and levels of stress hormone, linked to ill health
- Development of CHD
- Type B
- The opposite to type A
- Patient, relaxed and easy going
- Decrease an individuals risk of stress related illness
- Hardy
- Kobasa and Maddi
- Many type A people appeared resistant to CHD
- Provide people with a defence against the negative effects of stress
- Control of their lives, commitment (involved with the world) and challenges are seen as problems to overcome
- Research on Type A behaviour
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Studied 3000 men in California aged 39 to 59
- Examined for signs of CHD and personalities assessed by an interview, asking questions about responses to everyday hassles
- Interviewer spoke slowly to try and bring out type A's - interrupt
- After 8 and a half years, twice as many type A's had died from heart attack
- A had higher BP and cholestrol
- 12.8% heart attack (6%). 2.6% recurring HA (0.8%). 2.7% fatal HA (1.1%)
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Research on 'Hardy'
- Kobasa studied 800 American business executives, using SRRS
- 150 pps were classified as high stress
- Some had low illness record, others had high
- Another factor modifying the effects of stress
- Hardy personality encourages resilience, all people who scored low on illness but high on SRRS showed all hardy features
- Another factor modifying the effects of stress
- Some had low illness record, others had high
- 150 pps were classified as high stress
- Kobasa studied 800 American business executives, using SRRS
- Type A
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