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Article: Application of self-control procedures to modifying Type A behavior.
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- The Psychological Record
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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The Type A behavior pattern, described as a hard-driving, hostile, competitive, and time-urgent response style (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974) has been identified as an important risk factor for coronary heart disease (Brand, Rosenman, Sholtz, & Friedman, 1976; Rosenman, Brand, Jenkins, Friedman, Straus, & Wurm, 1975). More recent studies have found some of these Type A characteristics are more strongly related to coronary heart disease. Booth-Kewley and Friedman (1987) suggested that hostility and anger were the only toxic components of the Type A behavior pattern. Wright (1988) has, however, indicated that time urgency (the everlasting struggle to achieve a great many goals in ...