ERIC Number: ED279982
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Publication Date: 1987-Apr
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Effects of Type A Personality and Leisure Ethic on Chinese College Students' Leisure Activities and Academic Performance.
Tang, Thomas Li-Ping
In an earlier laboratory experiment using university students in the United States, Tang and Baumeister (1984) examined the effects of the Leisure Ethic, Type A personality, and task labels on subjects' task performance. The results showed that the interaction between Leisure Ethic endorsement and task label was significant among Type A coronary-prone subjects, but was not significant among Type B subjects. Reported in this document is a study conducted to replicate the 1984 study, using a sample of university students (N=58) in Taiwan, Republic of China. Chinese college students were classified as either Type A or Type B, and as either high or low Leisure Ethic, based on the median-split in their scores on Type A and Leisure Ethic measures. The results suggested that high Leisure Ethic subjects had significantly higher reported frequencies of going to movies and live concerts than had low Leisure Ethic subjects. Type As had a significantly higher rate of going to live concerts than had Type Bs. Type As with a high Leisure Ethic endorsement attended more live concerts than the average of the other three groups. Type As with a low Leisure Ethic had a significantly better total academic performance than the average of the other three groups. For Type Bs, the results failed to reach significance. The results of Tang and Baumeister's 1984 study were replicated in the present study. (NB)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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