Stress and personality

A reason why people my react differently to stress is personality. Friedman and Roseman suggest that type A personalities are associated with high stress levels. They carried out an experiment into type A personalities and CHD and found that 70% of the 257 men died where type A personality type. Participants had high levels of blood cholesterol, adrenaline and noradrenalin. Suggesting the men with type A personality coped worse with…