title: [Diagnosis of type A behavior pattern in patients with somatic risk factors for coronary disease].
abstract: Some theorists hypothesize that type A behavior--considered as an important coronary risk factor--differentially impacts upon the health of persons with varying needs for stimulation. Depending on the stimulation needed and the temperament features from which the need derives, a highly stimulating life-style either remains within or surpasses the individuals capacity. Heightened trait-anxiety level is theorized to be the index of the overload in the biological system of high-reactive persons of type A. The data collected show that type A behaviour considered separately leads to a different evaluation of coronary risk from a situation in which temperament features and the anxiety level are taken into account. Patients of higher type A were characterized by a higher need for stimulation than patients of lower type A. Anxiety levels were the same in both groups. Thus, the levels of coronary risk can be evaluated as comparable, despite the difference in type A intensity. The diagnosis of the negative impact of type A on health is more accurate, if the variables of temperament and personality are included.
authors.affiliation: Instytutu Psychologii PAN-Pracownia Psychologii Ekologicznej w Warszawie.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cofta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014434:Type A Personality
vernacular_title: Rozpoznanie wzoru zachowania A u chorych z somatycznymi czynnikami zagrozenia choroba wieńcowa.