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You may have come across or know a fair bit about type A and type B personalities. Type A personality is linked to an increased risk in stress related health problems, both psychological and physical.
Before you move on, you may like to take a simple test to find out your personality type. Using the following guide, simply read the following statements and decide how much you agree or disagree with them.
- 1=Strongly agree with the statement
- 2=Moderately agree with the statement
- 3=Mildly agree with the statement
- 4=Neither agree nor disagree with the statement
- 5=Mildly disagree with the statement
- 6=Moderately disagree with the statement
- 7=Strongly disagree with the statement
Type A Personality
Type A personality has the following characteristics:
- High achieving
- Performance orientation
- Competitive
- Impatient
- Do things with a sense of urgency
- Fast paced
- Feeling pressured
- Hypervigilant
- Aggressive
- Demanding
- Controlling
Type B Personality
Type B personality has the following characteristics:
- Relaxed
- Easy going
- Seldom impatient
- Non-work oriented
- Pursue other interests outside jobs
- Not pressured by time
- Do work in a slow and steady fashion
- Not easily irritated
- Speak and move slowly
- Do not keep to rigid deadlines
- Non-approval seeking
The health hazard of type A personality
Type A personality is linked to a number of health conditions including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, anxiety, depression and cancer.
Type A personality tends to be hostile, aggressive and hyperalert with a heightened stress response, all geared up to “fight” the demands of life. Type A personality has an abundance of stress hormones, which are adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol, in the body. Whilst a type A person may have a very successful career, equilibrium and quality of life may be elusive because of the inability to relax and the effects of chronic stress (Link to the article 030201001 Stress in the Problems which affect Mental Health Section 0302).
Identifying a type A child
Parents who are attuned to child development can identify certain characteristics in their children which signal the evolution into a type A adult if left unchecked. This is the typical profile of a type A child:
A type A child is a serious person who eschews play instead of work. Good grades, scholastic accolade and achievement are paramount. The child is constantly striving but never happy with what is attained. Intensity of emotion, self-imposed deadlines, unnecessary rules and regulations relating to study and preoccupation with performance are the hallmarks of the type A child. Perceived imperfections in life are a constant source of unhappiness for the child. The dominant feelings of guilt and shame because of perceived failure in life are a constant source of conflict for the type A child. The child has a constant need to keep up with the peers around so that they do not become better and leave the type A child behind. Type A child is critical, demanding, prone to complain, impossible to satisfied and often unreasonable. Psychosomatic complaints like headache, indigestion, stomachache, migraine and unexplained malaise are not uncommon.
Some helpful suggestions to deal with the type A behaviour
If you or your children have type A characteristics, you may consider the followings:
- Learn to prioritise, putting first things first.
- Schedule regular leisure and hobby time in the weekly activities.
- Observe strict recreation and rest time.
- Extend interests to other areas apart from work and /or study.
- Learn to enjoy people and spend time with important people in your life.
- Purposefully slow down your pace of doing things by reducing the sense of urgency.
- Practise relaxation and guided imagery exercises (refer to the Calm Optimiser CD in our online store).
- Learn about stress management (refer to the Stress Toolkit for the Young in the online store).
- Consider doing an anger management program (Watch out for Anger Management Toolkit in our Management Tools Page).
- Consider seeing a therapist.
A final word
Life is hard! Learn to be at peace with yourself and others. There is nothing so urgent and important that we should jeopardise our health for it!!
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