Relation of type A behavior and multidimensionally measured narcissistic personality of Japanese university students.
The revised version of the Type A Behavior Assessment Scale and the Narcissistic Personality Inventory short version were administered to 104 university students. The former scale has three subscales, Impatience and Hostile Speech Style, Achievement Striving and Job Commitment, and Time Urgency. The latter scale has three subscales. Need for Attention and Praise, Sense of Superiority, and Competence and Self-assertion. Analysis gave a total of five significant correlations between the subscales of the two questionnaires; Impatience and Hostile Speech Style of Type A is positively correlated with scores on two subscales of the narcissism measure, Need for Attention and Praise. Self-assertion, and Achievement Striving and Job Commitment of Type A is positively correlated with scores on all three subscales of the narcissism measure.
Oashi
Osamu
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Department of Educational Psychology, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan. oashi@faculty.chiba-u.jp
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009289:Narcissism; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014434:Type A Personality