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Making it without losing it: Type A, achievement motivation, and scientific attainment revisitedIn a study by Matthews, Helmreich, Beane, and Lucker (1980), responses by academic psychologists to the Jenkins Activity Survey for Health Prediction (JAS), a measure of the Type A construct, were found to be significantly, positively correlated with two measures of attainment, citations by others to published work and number of publications. In the present study, JAS responses from the Matthews et al. sample were subjected to a factor analysis with oblique rotation and two new subscales were developed on the basis of this analysis. The first, Achievement Strivings (AS) was found to be significantly correlated with both the publication and citation measures. The second scale, Impatience and Irritability (I/I), was uncorrelated with the achievement criteria. Data from other samples indicate that I/I is related to a number of health symptoms. The results suggest that the current formulation of the Type A construct may contain two components, one associated with positive achievement and the other with poor health.
Document ID
20040112159
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Helmreich, R. L.
(A-University of Texas at Austin)
Spence, J. T.
Pred, R. S.
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Personality and social psychology bulletin
Volume: 14
Issue: 3
ISSN: 0146-1672
Subject Category
Behavioral Sciences
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NCC2-286
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
NASA Discipline Space Human Factors
Non-NASA Center
NASA Program Biomedical Research
NASA Discipline Number 22-60

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