TYPE-A BEHAVIOR AND THE 5-FACTOR MODEL OF PERSONALITY

The hypothesis that people classified as Type A and Type B have differ ent personality profiles based on five major personality factors (Neur oticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) was tested using the Student. Jenkins Activity Survey and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. Results based on discriminant function ana lysis of data from 243 psychology undergraduates (105 males and 138 fe males) strongly supported the hypothesis indicating that Type A and Ty pe B groups have significantly different Revised NEO Personality Inven tory profiles and that the standardized discriminant function coeffici ents were large for Agreeableness and Conscientiousness and moderately large for Extraversion.