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Step 3: Type a & B Behavior Patterns
Are You Type A?
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Researchers who studied personality type and the likelihood of suffering a heart attack categorized behaviors into high risk and low risk groups: Type A & Type B. The Type A personality is linked to potential heart attacks because of stressful behaviors. Type B personality traits appear to be less stressful.
Instructions: Consider the characteristics of your everyday behavior. Take the following quiz and see how many of the following items apply to you. (Answer YES or NO.)
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STEP 3: Type A & B Behavior Patterns
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Do You...
1. Finish others’ sentences before they do?
2. Move, walk, or eat rapidly?
3. Prefer summaries instead of reading a book?
4. Become restless and angry in slow lines of traffic?
5. Generally feel impatient?
6. Tend to feel mistrustful of other people’s motives?
7. Try to do two or more things at one time?
8. Feel guilty if you relax or take a vacation?
9. Evaluate your work quality with your salary, number of employees, or grades as a measure?
10. Schedule more and more activities into less and less time?
11. Think about other things while talking to someone?
12. Show nervous gestures, like grinding your teeth, clenching fists, or drumming fingers?
13. Assume more than your share of responsibility?
14. Accentuate words in conversation when there is no reason?
15. Do a slow burn when service is not up to par?
Total # yes responses: _____
Scoring: If you answered “Yes” to ten or more, then claim your “A” for “Type A” behavior. However, this is one of the few times when an “A” is the lowest grade.
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