Anality and Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern.
The extent of overlap between the descriptively similar Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern and the psychoanalytic anal character was investigated empirically. Pearson product-moment correlations were computed on the scores of three samples of male introductory psychology, students on the Kline Ai3 anality scale and the Jenkins Activity Survey. As predicted three positive correlations resulted, two significant and the third a trend with an overall combined significant probability for the three samples (p < .005). The implications of these findings for the Type A literature are discussed.
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Dept. of Pyschiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Upstate Medical Center, 13210, USA.