Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Personality Factors and Stress
- Type A
- Friedman and Rosenman
- Characteristics lead to high blood pressure
- Competitive
- Impatient
- Hostile
- WCGS (1960)
- 3000 men
- 39-59
- California
- Examined for CHD
- Interviewed
- Elicit Type A
- 8 1/2 years
- 12.8% Type A died from CHD
- 6.0% type B died from CHD
- Follow up by Ragland and Brand
- 214 died from CHD
- no evidence w/regards to personality type
- Myrtek
- meta analysis of 35 studies
- association with hostility
- The Hardy Personality
- Kobasa and Maddi
- Kobasa
- 800 American business executives
- 150 classified as high stress
- some =low illness record, some = high record
- due to hardiness
- Maddi
- US Company
- Reducing workforce
- 2/3 suffered health related illness
- 1/3 thrived
- hardiness
- Control
- Commitment
- challenge
- Type B
- patient
- Relaxed
- Easy going
- Decrease stress related illness
- Evaluation
- Negative Affectivity
- High NA more likely to report distress
- Hardy = low on NA
- Measurement
- Relies on questionnaires
- Low internal validity