title: [Prevalence of a type A behavior pattern (coronary prone behavior pattern) in the Vienna population].
abstract: The prevalence of the coronary-prone behavior pattern and its interaction with psychosocial and primary coronary risk factors was studied in a Viennese population sample consisting of 1459 people (634 men, 825 women). The sample was representative with respect to sex, age greater than 16 years, socio-economic status and local distribution. A questionnaire-based short rating scale developed by Bortner was used. The distribution of the study population on the A-B axis was unimodal (means = 174.95 +/- 40.76). The upper and the lower third of the A-B dimension was designated to represent type A1 and type B4, respectively. The mean Bortner score and rate of type A1 persons clearly decreased at lower (16 to 20 years) and higher ages (greater than 60 years). Within the group of employed subjects aged 21 to 60 years the mean type A score and the rate of A1 subjects for men (177 +/- 39; 6%) differed significantly from that of their female counterparts (188 +/- 39; 13%). Housewives had a mean score of 178 +/- 41 and 10% of them were scored A1, thus indicating significantly lower mean scores than employed females but the same rate of A1. Subjects with higher educational level showed only a tendency to increased type A. The socio-economic status was positively correlated to the global Bortner score, especially in men, but no relation was found to the rate of Type A1 persons. There was no significant correlation between type A score and systolic or diastolic blood pressure, body mass index or smoking behavior, but a significant correlation between type A score and the subjective feeling of overload. Type A subjects scored themselves significantly more often as continuously overload.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Experimentelle Medizinische Psychologie und Umweltpsychologie, Universität Wien.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Groll-Knapp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kundi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pakesch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rasinger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tutsch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001317:Austria; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010556:Personality Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D014434:Type A Personality
vernacular_title: Prävalenz des Typ-A-Verhaltensmusters (Coronary-prone behavior pattern) in der Wiener Bevölkerung.