PERSONALITY
CHARACTERISTICS
The following are some research results of found true
of A, B, Hardy & C Personality Types. Once again please keep in mind this may
not be true of any individual but is true of people of society in general. You may be somewhere along the spectrum.
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
TYPE C PERSONALITY
* Pleasant & Try to keep Peace
* Difficult to Express Emotions - Negative
* Despair over loss of loved ones or Hope
* Lonely
