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Ad1, PERSONALITY TYPES A, B & D:

Notes from my Journal, I became interested in this in 1973.


More information towards understanding Human Behavior.

Everyone should know what basic personality type they are. Meyer Friedman and his co-workers first defined two personality types in the 1950s. Friedman classified people into Type A and Type B personalities, and he theorized that Type A personalities had a higher risk of coronary heart disease.

Type A Personality:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Type A personality, also known as the Type A Behavior Pattern, is a set of characteristics that includes being impatient, excessively time-conscious, insecure about one's status, highly competitive, aggressive, hostile, and incapable of relaxation. Type A individuals are often highly achieving workaholics who multi-task, drive themselves with deadlines, and are unhappy about the smallest of delays. According to Friedman (1996), Type A behavior is wrapped up in time urgency and impatience, which causes irritation and exasperation. They can express free floating hostility, which can be triggered even over little incidents.
Type A characteristics
1. an intense drive to achieve one’s goals 2. over-competitiveness in all areas of lives 3. constantly seeking for recognition and improvement 4. involvement in many activities at once which had deadlines to meet 5. tendency to rush things 6. astonishing physical and mental alertness.

TYPE B PERSONALITY:
The Type B personality, in contrast, is patient, relaxed, and easy-going. There is also a Type AB mixed profile for people who cannot be clearly categorized.
Type B and its characteristics are the opposites of Type A personality.
Therefore, Type B people are characterized by a lack of: drive, ambition, sense of urgency, competitiveness and involvements which have deadlines.

TYPE C PERSONALITY:
No definition available for "Type C" personality as of yet.

Type D Personality:
In a Yahoo! Health article, Dr. Simeon Margolis of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has advanced the concept of a "type D" personality, which is associated which an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Citing an unnamed Dutch study, Margolis characterizes Type D personalities as those who tend to "experience negative emotions like hostility, anxiety, anger, depressed mood, tension, and a negative view of themselves." Oddly, the author of the article admits to being unaware of any definition for a possible "Type C" personality, but speculates that the D in "Type D" stands for "distressed”.