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What’s your Type?

What’s your Type?. A or B. Type A.

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What’s your Type?

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  1. What’s your Type? A or B

  2. Type A • Individuals who find it extremely difficult to relax. They’re competitive on every level (even when playing games with children), experience anger and impatience with people they feel are incompetent, are always under the restraints of time, and continuously push themselves to achieve more.

  3. Type B • Individuals who have a laid – back, calm, relaxed attitude toward life.

  4. Consider • What is your Autonomic Nervous System Doing? • Why is your grade so good? • With the information you have about Type A and Type B behavior, what changes should me made in your lifestyle?

  5. Racing Against Your HeartFiedman & Rosenman • RESULTS, p.214 *Key Finding: 28% of Type A subjects ehibited clear evidence of CHD, compared with 4% in the Type B group. (All 23 type A’s were A+ and all 3 type B’s were incomplete ‘B+’)

  6. Type A / Hostility Increase Risk of Coronary Disease • Type A Behavior, Redford.williams • The study showed significant symptoms of coronary disease in Type A personalities. (75% at least one occluded artery) • 75% of the Type A patients with high hostility scores had more significant symptoms.

  7. Hostility • Williams defines the onset of Type A behavior as the fulfillment of negative expectations. • Counter to Type A in Williams research, Type B behaviors tend to include trust and expecting the best. “Type A behavior is a cyclical form of hostile behavior that originates with cynicism, progresses into anger, culminates in an outburst of aggression and recycles whenever the original cause of the cynicism recurs. - Redford Williams, Duke University

  8. Coping (Type A) • reading • enjoyable leisure activity • T.V. • Break from work • Sleeping/nap • Ride bike • Musica • Therapy

  9. Coping (type B) • Yoga • Eating (ie chocolate!!!)

  10. What the experts say about Coping • Shot gun: A’s are encouraged to slow down and perform tasks incompatible with their personalities (p.106). Listen without interupting, stand in the longest supermarket line . *Can reduce desirable A behavior, such as ambitiousmess and drive.

  11. Target Behavior: Focuses only on heart disease related behaviors, such as cynical hostility.

  12. Hardiness / Resilience / Optimism • Commitment • Control • Challenge * Definition (p.107)

  13. Commitment • Strong sense of commitment to both work and personal life. Make intentional commitments to purposeful activity and problem solving. • Problem Focused Coping strategies based on using problem – solving strategies to decrease or eliminate the source of stress

  14. Challenge • View change as an opportunity for growth and improvement – not as a threat. Hardy people welcome challenges.

  15. Control • Not victims of whatever life brings bas personally in control. (Internal vs. External Locus of Control) • Locus of Control • Explanatory Style • Self - Efficacy • Locus of Control Web Survey

  16. Locus of Control • Julian Rotter • Self – fulfilling prophecy *You expect to succeed, so your work hard and succeed. Or your expect to fail, so you don’t do much work, and as a result you do poorly. People who have an internal locus of control tend to believe that they are responsible for what happens to them, they control their destiny. • Locus of Control Web Survey

  17. Explanatory Style • Optimistic • Pessimistic *We didn’t win because my arm is shot, and it will never get better.” Pessimistic: Defense Mechanisms…Unconscious strategies used to distort reality and relive anxiety and guilt. *We didn’t win because we got a couple of lousy calls, just bad luck in this game, but we’ll be great tomorrow.” Positive

  18. Self - Efficacy • The conviction that you can successfully accomplish what you set out to do. *Jim Abbot *Aimee Mullins

  19. Four Sources of Self-efficacy: • Having experiences in mastering new skills and overcoming obstaclesOccasional failures may not be much fun, but they are necessary for self – efficacy. • Having successful and competent Role Models • Getting feedback and encouragement from others • Learning how to read and manage your own physiological state You will feel more competent when you are calm and relaxed than when your are tense or under stress.

  20. Is Hardiness Inherited or Learned?

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