Type A behaviour and time urgency: perception of time adjectives.
Relations between time perception and Type A behaviour were investigated. Extreme Type A (n = 26) and B (n = 28) male college undergraduates rated the appropriateness of 158 adjectives as descriptors of time. Adjectives were independently rated using seven-point Likert 'speed' and 'energy' scales. Analyses showed that Type As rate adjectives low in speed and energy as less descriptive of time than Type Bs and vice versa.
Mueser
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Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania at EPPI, Philadelphia 19129.
Yarnold
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Bryant
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D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D013998:Time Perception; D014434:Type A Personality