Personality Types and Associated Behaviours Flashcards
What did Friedman and Rosenman study?
The behaviour of patients suffering from CHD and proposed that a particular behaviour pattern was associated with increased vulnerability to this stress related illness
What are some characteristics of Type A personality?
- Impatient
- Competitive
- Hostile
- Agressive
What are Type A personalities like?
- Constantly set deadlines
- Low boredom threshold
- Easily irritated
- Displays self anger
What are some characteristics of Type B personality?
- Non-competitive
- Self-confident
- Relaxed
- Easy going
- Less hostile
What did Friedman and Rosenman do?
Longitudal study where they followed 3154 healthy men for eight and a half years, asked to complete a questionnaire and from their responses each participant was our unit one of two groups, Type A and Type B
What did they find?
More than twice as many Type A people developed CHD, 8 years later 257 developed CHD, by the end of the study 70% of the men who developed CHD were type a personality
What are some characteristics of Type C personality?
- Nice
- Sociable
- Repressed
- Helplessness
- Little social support
What did Temoshock find?
Type C personalities were cancer prone, difficulty expressing emotion and suppressing emotions
What are some characteristics of Type D personality?
- Don’t like change
- Highly obedient
- Prone to worry
- Lack self assurance
What did Denollet find?
Up to 53% cardiac patients display Type D behaviour
What are 5 evaluation points?
- High population validity
- Androcentric
- Ethnocentric
- High ecological validity
- Reductionist
