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KMID : 0386819930030020145
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Journal of the Institute of Health Environmental Sciences
1993 Volume.3 No. 2 p.145 ~ p.162
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Factor Structure of type A behavior pattern in F.R. Germany and its international comparison
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Abstract
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Johnston et al. (1983) used the method of flat summing of all type A variables. But it can not be valid because each variable had a singificantly different weight. Therefore this study used factor analysis.
The questionnaire of type A behavior pattern was the German version of the Bortner Scale with 14 items as follows: unpunctual, very competitive, anticipates what others are going to say, always rushed, impatient when waiting, goes all
out-mobilizes
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for objective, many things at once, emphatic in speech, wants good fob recongnized by others. Fast, hard driving, hides feelings, many interests outside work, and ambitious.
The analyzed factors (5) were as follows: Speed and Urgency (D). Little Listening to Others (H). Competitiveness and Ambition (K), Introversion (I). and Mobilization (M). The factor structures shown in thpe A behavior studies in the western world
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general similar (Amos et al.. 1978: Hayano et al..1989: Johnson et al.. 1989: Johnston et al.. 1983: Lundberg. 1980: Matthews et al.. 1980, 1982).
The German factor structure of type A behavior in this study contained factor I and factor H. which other factor analyses had fund. Factor H was similar to verbal rivalry in the structured Interview.
Meanwhile. this study did not have a hostility factor and a control ambition factor, because the Bortner Scale did not contain such items. These two factors had turned out to be important in other studies (Amos et al.. 1987: Johnson et al..
1989).
Observational studies had also shown the importance of dominant behavior and social life(henry et al.. 1977). More advanced study with such items was also necessary in the Federal Rupublic of Germany.
Only two factors of the type A behavior subfactors were cross-sectionally associated with cardiovascular disease; namely, speed and urgncy (D), and mobilization (M) This tendency was stronger in possible infarction than in angina pectoris, and
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in men than in women. This study recommended a revised German scale of type A behavior on the ground of its results and international comparison. Prospective evaluation is necessary.
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