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The effects of success and failure on self-esteem and locus of control
(1975)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of success and failure on self-esteem, locus of control and the relationship
between these two variables. One hundred and four introductory
psychology ...
Overweight women who join weight reducing clubs and the internal-external personality trait
(1975)
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between attempts made by overweight women to lose weight and the internal-external (I-E) personality dimension. It was hypothesized that: 1) Overweight ...
Effects of task difficulty and Type A behavior pattern on the inverted-u relationship between stress level and performance
The purpose of this study was twofold: to examine
the effects of task difficulty and the Type A Behavior
Pattern on the inverted-U relationship between stress level
(arousal) and performance, and to examine possible ...
Type A personality and heart rate perception
(1985)
The present study sought to replicate previous findings
on the discrepancy between Type A's self-reporting of stress
and their physiological arousal. An attempt was also made
to clarify whether this discrepancy was due ...
Type A behavior pattern, frustration and aggression
(1984)
Experimental studies have shown Type A Behavior
Pattern individuals to be more aggressive than Type B's.
The primary purpose of this study was to examine whether
increased frustration in response to task failure offers ...
Individual differences related to stress
The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences
in how people respond in a stressful situation might be related to
underlying differences in personality and cognitive functioning.
The four individual ...
Type A behavior pattern : relationship to personality and psychopathology
(1983)
Controversy exists around whether the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS),
a questionnaire measuring the Type A coronary-prone behavior pattern,
correlates with measures of pathology. The present study investigated
this ...