Time Urgency and Type a Behavior
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 8 (3) , 563-565
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167282083025
Abstract
The time urgent compotent of the Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern was investigated through examination of temporal placement of participation in a questionnaire study. Subjects volunteered to complete a questionnaire battery during an eight-week time period in order to gain extra-credit toward their course grade. Results indicated that Type As participated earlier in the time period than Type Bs. It was suggested that Type A-B status could be confounded with systematic changes in a study that occur as a function of time. Random assignment of subjects to participation times appears to be essential in such cases.Keywords
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