title: The type A behavior pattern in children: relationships with performance on speed oriented tasks.
abstract: The Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) was completed by teachers to evaluate 85 fifth- and sixth-grade boys. Type A and B groups of 20 boys each were selected based on MYTH scores. Each boy performed a signalled reaction time task and a perceptual search task. No performance difference was found between the Type A and B boys on the reaction time task. On the perceptual search task, each boy had to scan a set of pictures and report the number of "Snoopy's" seen in each picture. A group difference in response time was found, with the Type A boys having a mean of 5.98 s versus 7.87 for the Type B boys.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, LA 70148.
authors: L E
authors: LE
authors: Stamps
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D013663:Teaching; D014434:Type A Personality