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Peer reviewedMatthews, Karen A. – Child Development, 1979
Examines the initial reactions of type A and type B boys and men to uncontrollable events. Type A individuals are characterized by extremes of competitive achievement striving, impatience, and aggression, a pattern of behavior implicated by recent research in the etiology of coronary heart disease. Type B individuals exhibit the relative absence…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aggression, Behavior Patterns, College Students
