Type A behavior in women: a review.
This review focuses on characteristics of the Type A behavior pattern in women in studies of demographic characteristics, physiological responses, laboratory performance, and personality. With some exceptions, these characteristics parallel those previously described for Type A men. The incidence of Type A behavior in the United States is comparable for men and women when socioeconomic factors are controlled. Type A behavior in women is positively correlated with socioeconomic status, occupation, education, and incidence of coronary heart disease. Type A women tend to show greater autonomic arousal to laboratory stressors as well as greater time urgency and speed, more goal directedness, a preference to work alone under stress conditions, and more competitiveness/aggressiveness than Type B women. Type A positively correlates with various estimates of anger, hostility, and masculine sex role orientation. Depression and anxiety in Type A's are found to vary as a function of sex role orientation and locus of control. Methodological problems in the existing studies are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D005783:Gender Identity; D006040:Goals; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012923:Social Class; D014434:Type A Personality; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*