The Thayer Scale Response Patterns of Type a and Type b College Students

1989 ◽  
Vol 65 (3_suppl2) ◽  
pp. 1167-1170
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hicks ◽  
Tonja Green ◽  
Jerayr Haleblian
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Type A ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Type B ◽  
Activation Pattern ◽  
Check List ◽  
High Activation ◽  
Activation Patterns ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Scale Response

Using Thayer's Activation-Deactivation Adjective Check List, the activation patterns of 95 Type A and 105 Type B college students were measured. The pattern of the group means suggests that Type A students are higher than Type B students on both energy and tension activation. When the responses of individuals were examined, the Type A students were 2.5 times more likely to exhibit this high activation pattern than was the case for the Type B students.

Type-A Behavior and Calcium Consumption by College Students

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-162
Author(s):  
Philip J. Mohan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Calcium Intake ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Type B ◽  
Daily Calcium Intake ◽  
Women College Students ◽  
Daily Milk

The daily calcium intake of Type A (21 men, 49 women) and Type B (37 men, 95 women) college students was compared. No difference appeared between these groups, although men exhibited significantly higher daily milk and calcium consumption than women, contrary to earlier studies. The implications of this finding for further research were briefly discussed.

Type A-B Behavior and the Overt and Covert Hostility Levels of College Students

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hicks ◽  
Jean A. Hodgson
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Type A ◽  
Psychometric Validation ◽  
Type B

As a means of providing psychometric validation of Friedman and Rosenman's (1977) clinical observation that Type A individuals show excessive levels of covert hostility, groups of Type A and Type B students were tested with the Buss-Durkee (1957) Hostility Inventory. Type A students expressed higher levels of hostility than the Type B students. However, this difference was due primarily to the relatively greater level of overt hostility of the Type A group. These groups did not differ in level of covert hostility.

Measuring Need to Achieve by n Ach-n Aff Scale—A Forced-Choice Questionnaire

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 907-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Clay Lindgren
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Need For Affiliation ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Expectant Mothers ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Bank Tellers

To measure the need to achieve (n Ach), a questionnaire was constructed which required the subject to make a forced choice on each of 30 pairs of adjectives. Half the adjectives were based on the Need for Achievement scale and the other half on the Need for Affiliation scale of Gough's Adjective Check List. When the questionnaire was scored in the n Ach direction, differences between sex and age groupings of college students were negligible and nonsignificant, but scores for males were positively and significantly correlated with grades on midterms and GPA, whereas correlations for female students were low, positive, and significant only at the 10% level. Bank tellers' n Ach scores correlated positively with supervisors' ratings and were significantly lower than those of college students. Expectant mothers were the lowest scoring group on n Ach, while male Chinese-speaking immigrants under 30 scored the highest. Results were considered to be consistent with previous research and with expectations based on common sense and everyday impressions.

The Incidence of Sleep Problems among Type a and Type B College Students: Changes over a Ten-Year Period (1982–1992)

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 746-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta. Hicks ◽  
Patricia A. Conti ◽  
Robert J. Pellegrini
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type B

Ten years ago we reported that Type A scoring students were twice as likely as their Type B peers to report sleep problems. In an exact 1992 replication of that study, no Type A-B differences in the frequency of self-reported sleep problems were observed; however, the over-all incidence of sleep problems among the 753 college students had increased substantially.

Type A-B Scores and Insomnia among College Students: A Replication and Extension of Earlier Studies

1993 ◽  
Vol 77 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1265-1266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine A. Hayer ◽  
Robert A. Hicks
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type B ◽  
Sleep Habits ◽  
Weak Evidence

In an attempt to rationalize conflicting sets of data from earlier studies, groups of Type A- and Type B-classified university students were asked to respond to a sleep habits questionnaire that included the items of the Coren Insomnia Scale. As was the case in two earlier studies, we found significant but weak evidence from the Coren scale only that Type A-scoring students experience more sleep problems than Type B scorers. We also found, as in a recent study, a sharp increase in sleep problems among all the students sampled from the frequencies reported by similar groups in 1982.

Responses of rat brainstem neurons to carotid occlusion

1976 ◽  
Vol 231 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Nosaka
Keyword(s):  
Carotid Sinus ◽  
Nucleus Tractus Solitarius ◽  
Type A ◽  
Nucleus Ambiguus ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Type B ◽  
Vagal Nerves ◽  
Cardiovascular Neurons ◽  
Time Courses ◽  
Rat Brainstem

The distribution and features of cardiovascular neurons (CVN) were studied in the brainstem of chloralose-anesthetized rats. Only neurons yielding an immediate response to carotid occulsion (CO) were considered as CVN. The criterion was deduced from the response patterns of cardiovascular afferent (carotid sinus nerve) and efferents (sympathetic and vagal nerves) during CO. Seventy-two CVN were identified and were observed to be mostly in the medullarly reticular formation and to some extent in the nucleus tractus solitarius and nucleus ambiguus. Fifty-five CVN (type A) decreased their firing rates in response to CO where 17 CVN (type B) increased their rates. Analyses of the time courses of their responses to CO revealed the convergence of the chemoreceptor and baroreceptor inputs onto some type A neurons. Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord evoked orthodromic responses in some neurons in both types. The evoked responses were blocked by CO in type A neurons whereas they were facilitated in those of type B. These results suggest that input from arterial baroreceptors, arterial chemoreceptors, and spinal ascending afferents is integrated within CVN.

Biofeedback, Competitive Set, and Type A/Type B Interactions with Female College Students

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 983-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. Drennen ◽  
Harriet H. Ford ◽  
Larry L. Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Type A ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Type B ◽  
Frontalis Muscle ◽  
Female College ◽  
Survey Form

From a pool of female college students who volunteered and took the modified Jenkins Survey (Form T), 22 subjects were classified as Type A (scores of 11 or above) or as Type B (scores of 5 or below). Subjects were subdivided into six groups (Type A/B) as control, biofeedback/relaxation, or biofeedback/relaxation with competitive set. EMG (frontalis muscle tension) scores were assessed over five blocks of five trials. Pre- and postanxiety self-report measures were also obtained for all subjects. Analysis suggested an interaction of Type (A or B) with set (competitive only). EMG scores indicated that Type A subjects were more tense and remained more tense than Type B subjects under a competitive set. EMG tension scores diminished over trials for all groups. Pre- and postanxiety scores indicated a reduction in self-reported state anxiety for all groups combined, but no differential reductions with respect to group, condition, or set.

The Valence of Dreams Reported by Type A-B College Students

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 748-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hicks ◽  
Cheryl Chancellor ◽  
Tim Clark
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type B ◽  
Manifest Content

The valences of the dreams reported by Type A ( n = 39) and Type B ( n = 42) undergraduates were examined. Consistent with the view that in part the manifest content of the dream may reflect attempts to manage stress, the Type A students were significantly more likely than the Type B students, to report disturbing dreams.

Additional Validity Data for the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List—Revised

1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lubin ◽  
John Cain ◽  
Rodney Van Whitlock
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Check List ◽  
Validity Data ◽  
Adjective Check List ◽  
Affect Adjective

The correlations of scores on the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List—Revised with selected scales of the Adjective Check List for 43 college students are presented. The pattern of significant intercorrelations adds to the knowledge of validity for the MAACL—R.

Biofeedback and Effects of Set and Sex with Type a and Type B College Students: An Exploratory Study

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-790
Author(s):  
William T. Drennen ◽  
Jeffrey J. Vidic ◽  
Richard Nay
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Type A ◽  
Emg Biofeedback ◽  
Monetary Reward ◽  
Biofeedback Training ◽  
Type B ◽  
Subject Pool ◽  
Pool Type

From a subject pool, Type A and B subjects, 13 women and 12 men, were chosen to participate in EMG biofeedback training for two sessions. In Session 1 subjects were given standard biofeedback training instructions without any set except to use the biofeedback signals to relax. In Session 2 a mildly competitive set was introduced with potential monetary reward. Subjects showed relaxation over and within sessions with no significant type or set differences or interactions. Men showed more increased relaxation within sessions than did women regardless of type and set.

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