Abstract

People's personalities affect the way they think, feel, react, and judge. Certain personalities affect people's health and life choices. In this paper, the affects of Type A Personality Syndrome will be discussed, along with a focus on the relationship between coronary heart disease and Type A Sydrome. Also, a study on the hardy personality will be researched showing the ways people can cope with stress in healthy ways.

Some of the Differences Between Type A and B Personality, with a Focus on Type A, and Their Effect on People's Lifestyles and Health.

People are different in essential ways. They want different and have different motives, purposes, aims, values, needs, drives, impulses, and urges. Nothing is more primary than that. They believe differently: they think, cognize, conceptualize, perceive, understand, and comprehend differently. Also, actions and emotions differ radically among people. Differences among us are not hard to see, if one looks.

Dr. Friedman and Rosenman developed the idea of two different genetic groups A and B (Weiten, 1998). Originally, the two doctors were investigating the cause of the coronary heart disease. They were terribly confused with patients who seemed perfectly healthy, yet developed the disease. Eventually, they came to the conclusion that personality and stress were slightly correlated with coronary risk. Thus, they named this syndrome Type A Personality (Weiten, 1998). People with type A are characterized by attributes such as hard driving effort, constant striving for achievement, competitiveness, aggressivity, haste, impatience, restlessness, alertness, uneven bursts of amplitude in speech, and hurried motor movement. Type B's feel less time urgency, value leisure time and use it without guilt, are more likely to be committed to meaningful life goals, react more slowly, are more self-accepting and less self-critical, and are more thoughtful, relaxed and contemplative than type A's (Samuel, 1998).

In conclusion, there are many different factors in the correlation between type A and coronary heart disease. All of these factors make it clear that there should be a connection between the two. What is most surprising of all is that the correlation is not higher.

Another issue may be how stress and a person's response to it translates into bodily damage? Once a person is exposed to any type of stress or trauma, the body's defense is called "general adaptation syndrome". Hans Selye found that the first symptoms of almost any type of disease or trauma are almost identical. There are three stages in general adaptation syndrome: A) alarm reaction, B) stage of resistance, C) stage of exhaustion (Coon, 1998).

2. They felt they had control over their lives and their work.

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Approximate Word count = 2232
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)