Personality factors

Type A behaviour (TAB)

• Hostile, Impatient, competitive, time pressured.

Type B behvaiour

• Patient, relaxed, easy going

Rosenham (1976)

Aim: Find out if a type A person is more likely to develop CHD as type B.

Procedure: 3454 middle ages men USA. Categorized A or B after an interview.
Followed up 8 years later
Results: 257 had heart attacks, 69% type A.
Conclusion: High TAB individuals vulnerable to heart attacks.
+/-: concept of TAB based on western concept.

Other personality types

Eysenck (1988)

- 2 TYPES OF PERSONALITY

1. Personality vulnerable to cancer, associated with expressing emotions.
2. Peronality type vulnerable to CHD. Similar to TAB. High levles of anger and hostility.

+/-: No consistent evidence linking these personality types to cancer or CHD.

Derollet (2000)

- Type D personality. 'Distressed' expeience high levels of negative emotions and social inhibition.