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Are You A "Type A" Personality?
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Are You Type 'A' Personality?

Please go through this test and indicate of how many of these traits describe you. Selected the check box on the right when content applies to you.

1 I am always busy.
2 I have extraordinary mental alertness, and can supress fatigue more than many others I know.
3 I strive more for the admiration of my friends and co-workers than for their affection.
4 I set deadlines for myself and work at a maximum speed and capacity irrespective of the presence of a deadline.
5 New people make me nervous.
6 The people who know me well (ie. spouse) think of me as a hard driving individual.
7 I hate slow drivers.
8 I get very irritable if I have to wait - I hate a line-up.
9 I bottle up my feelings and do not express them easily.
10 I am always in a hurry - I have a deep inner drive to accomplish everything quickly.
11 I eat rapidly and I often read at the same time.
12 I have trouble going to sleep. I cannot turn off my mind.
13 I carry work material with me, and am impatient for a vacation to end so that I can return to the usual work schedule.
14 I get impatient when I see something being done more slowly than I think it can be done.
15 I lose my temper easily.
16 I find it hard to relax.
17 I am apt to be nauseated, dizzy, faint, have cramps, or headaches under stress.
18 I fiddle with my hair, scratch a lot, touch my nose, shake my legs, chew my fingernails OR doodle.
19 I get upset easily.
20 When someone else is talking I try to hurry them along. I sometimes finish sentences for others.
21 Noises irritate me a lot.
22 I am competitive by nature. I have a profound inclination and eagerness to compete.
23 I have continuous involvement in multiple and diverse functions and am constantly subject to time restrictions.
24 I am impatient with others.
25 I cannot sit still, I always have to be doing something.
 
  Your Total is:

Results:

I you have 13 or less yeses, you needn't be concerned about being type 'A'.
If you have over 14 yeses, you lean towards being type 'A'. If you have between 20-25 yeses, slow down quickly! You are strongly a type 'A' personality.

Type A Personality: Driving, focussed person who gets ahead at any cost. Associated with coronary heart disease. Type A get to be middle management, but rarely reaches the top.

Type B Personality: More balanced and healthy. This is the individual who inspires confidence in a quiet way and eventually gets to be the CEO.


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