Type A Behavior in Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents

Gerdi Weidner; Gary Sexton; Joseph D. Matarazzo; Chere Pereira; Ronald Friend

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.24.1.118

Type A Behavior in Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents

Gerdi Weidner, Gary Sexton, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Chere Pereira, Ronald Friend

Behavioral Neuroscience

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This study examines the relations of Type A scores of parents to Type A scores of their children. Parents' Type A behavior was measured by the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS; Jenkins, Zyzanski & Rosenman, 1979) and the Framingham scale (FS; Haynes, Levine, Scotch, Feinleib, & Kannel, 1978). Children completed the Hunter-Wolf (HW; Wolf, Sklov, Wenzl, Hunter, & Berenson, 1982) Type A behavior scale. Parent-child correlations were found for father-son pairs only: Fathers' FS scores and overall JAS scores as well as the speed and impatience and the hard-driving competitiveness factors were all found to be related to sons' overall HW Type A scores and the restlessness/aggression factor. These results indicate that fathers may play an important role in the development of Type A behavior in their sons. Parental influences on the development of Type A behavior in daughters remain unclear.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	118-121
Number of pages	4
Journal	Developmental psychology
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.24.1.118
State	Published - Jan 1988

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Developmental and Educational Psychology
Life-span and Life-course Studies

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