Impatience versus achievement strivings in the Type A pattern: Differential effects on students' health and academic achievement.
研究发现A型行为模式包含成就追求和急躁易怒两个独立因素，前者与学业成绩正相关，后者与身体不适频率正相关，对健康和行为有不同影响。
Psychometric analyses o f college students' responses to the Jenkins Activity Survey, a selfreport measure o f the Type A behavior pattern, revealed the presence of two relatively independent factors.Based o n these analyses?two scales, labeled Achievement Strivings (AS) and Impatience and Irritability ( 1 1 1 , were developed.In two samples o f male and female college students, scores o n AS but not on I 1 were found to be significantly correlated with grade point average.Responses to a health survey9 o n the other hand, indicated that frequency o f physical complaints was significantly correlated with I 1 but not with AS.These results suggest that there are two .--. relatively independent factors in the Type A pattern that have differential effects o n performance and health.Future research on the personality factors related to coronary heart disease and other disorders might more profitably focus o n the syndrome reflected in the I 1 scale than o n t h e Type A pattern.