PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS
The following are some research results of found true of A, B & Hardy personality Types. Once again please keep in mind this may not be true of any individual put is true of people of society in general. SO THINK CRITICALLY!
TYPE A PERSONALITY
* Highly driven
* Highly competitive
* Highly impatient
* Highly aggressive (Matthews et al., 1982; Holmes & Will, 1985)
* Feeling rushed & under pressure
* Prompt & early for appointments (Strahan, 1981)
* Eat, walk & talk rapidly
* Become restless when others work slowly (Musante et al., 1983)
* Dominate group discussions (Yarnold et al., 1985)
* Difficult to surrender control or to share power (Miller et al., 1985; Strube & Werner, 1985)
* Reluctant to delegate authority in the workplace, thus increase their workload
* Accentuate the negative
* Merciless in their self-criticism when they fail at a task (Moser & Dyck, 1989)
* Seek out negative information about themselves in order to better themselves (Cooney & Zeichner, 1985)
* Require perfection in everything they undertake
TYPE B PERSONALITY
* Relax more readily
* Focus on the quality of life
* Less ambitious
* Less impatient & pace themselves
* View time progress less rapidly (Yarnold & Grimm, 1982)
* Earn less money than A's of equal intelligence
* Earn lower grades than A's of equal intelligence (Glass, 1977)
* Seek challenge less than A's (Ortega & Pipal, 1984)
HARDY PERSONALITY TYPE
* All of Type A Characteristics BUT ALSO...
** The 3 C's!
* Sense of Control
* Sense of Committment
* Sense of Challenge
