Adrianna
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Type A and B Personalities
Type A:
1. high levels of competitiveness, time urgency, and irritability.
2. Work hard; seek challenging tasks.
3. Perform poorly on judgment tasks. Not patient.
4. Tend to not rise to top levels of management
Type B:
1. Calm and laid back.
2. Perform better on complex judgment tasks.
3. Work tends to be accurate.
4. More top executives are Type B.
Type A / Type B Personality
Print out this page and answer the following questions. Below is a key to interpret your scores.
1. Is your everyday life filled mostly by:
a. Problems needing solution?
b. Challenges needing to be met?
c. A rather predictable routine of events?
d. Not enough things to keep you interested or busy
2. When you are under pressure or stress do you usually:
a. Do something about it immediately?
b. Plan carefully before taking any action?
3. Ordinarily how rapidly do you eat?
a. Im usually the first one finished.
b. I eat a little faster than average.
c. I eat at about the same speed as most people.
d. I eat more slowly than most people.
4. When you listen to someone talking and this person takes too long to come to the point do you feel like hurrying him/her along?
a. Frequently
b. Occasionally
c. Almost never
5. Do most people consider you to be:
a. Definitely hard-driving and competitive?
b. Probably hard-driving and competitive?
c. Probably more relaxed and easygoing?
d. Definitely more relaxed and easygoing?
6. Would people who know you well agree that you have less energy than most people?
a. Definitely yes
b. Probably yes
c. Probably no
d. Definitely no
7. Do you ever set deadlines or quotas for yourself in courses or other things?
a. No
b. Yes, but only occasionally
c. Yes, once per week or more often
8. Do you maintain a regular study schedule during vacations such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Sometimes
9. When you are in a group, do the other people tend to look to you to provide leadership?
a. Rarely
b. About as often as they look to others
c. More often than they look to others
10. Compared with the average student at this school, I am:
a. Much more responsible.
b. A little more responsible.
c. A little less responsible.
d. Much less responsible.
Give yourself one point for each answer that agrees with the key below:
Item Choice
1 a, b
2 a
3 a, b
4 a
5 a, b
6 d
7 c
8 a
9 c
10 a
A score of 7 or higher suggests a Type A personality. A score of 3 or below suggests Type B. A score between 4 and 6 is average and does not clearly indicate Type A or B. (Note that while this measure assesses some important dimensions of the Type A personality, no question directly assesses anger.)
I got a 12, so I guess I'm definitely Type A
Type A:
1. high levels of competitiveness, time urgency, and irritability.
2. Work hard; seek challenging tasks.
3. Perform poorly on judgment tasks. Not patient.
4. Tend to not rise to top levels of management
Type B:
1. Calm and laid back.
2. Perform better on complex judgment tasks.
3. Work tends to be accurate.
4. More top executives are Type B.
Type A / Type B Personality
Print out this page and answer the following questions. Below is a key to interpret your scores.
1. Is your everyday life filled mostly by:
a. Problems needing solution?
b. Challenges needing to be met?
c. A rather predictable routine of events?
d. Not enough things to keep you interested or busy
2. When you are under pressure or stress do you usually:
a. Do something about it immediately?
b. Plan carefully before taking any action?
3. Ordinarily how rapidly do you eat?
a. Im usually the first one finished.
b. I eat a little faster than average.
c. I eat at about the same speed as most people.
d. I eat more slowly than most people.
4. When you listen to someone talking and this person takes too long to come to the point do you feel like hurrying him/her along?
a. Frequently
b. Occasionally
c. Almost never
5. Do most people consider you to be:
a. Definitely hard-driving and competitive?
b. Probably hard-driving and competitive?
c. Probably more relaxed and easygoing?
d. Definitely more relaxed and easygoing?
6. Would people who know you well agree that you have less energy than most people?
a. Definitely yes
b. Probably yes
c. Probably no
d. Definitely no
7. Do you ever set deadlines or quotas for yourself in courses or other things?
a. No
b. Yes, but only occasionally
c. Yes, once per week or more often
8. Do you maintain a regular study schedule during vacations such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Sometimes
9. When you are in a group, do the other people tend to look to you to provide leadership?
a. Rarely
b. About as often as they look to others
c. More often than they look to others
10. Compared with the average student at this school, I am:
a. Much more responsible.
b. A little more responsible.
c. A little less responsible.
d. Much less responsible.
Give yourself one point for each answer that agrees with the key below:
Item Choice
1 a, b
2 a
3 a, b
4 a
5 a, b
6 d
7 c
8 a
9 c
10 a
A score of 7 or higher suggests a Type A personality. A score of 3 or below suggests Type B. A score between 4 and 6 is average and does not clearly indicate Type A or B. (Note that while this measure assesses some important dimensions of the Type A personality, no question directly assesses anger.)
I got a 12, so I guess I'm definitely Type A
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I got a 1, guess that qualifies as type B!
