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Type A behavior pattern, sex, and social support
D J Lynch1, K F Schaffer, L Hinojosa
1Department of Family Medicine, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo 43614, USA. dlynch@mco.edu
Psychological Reports
|October 12, 2000
Abstract:
Low social support has been suggested as a contributing factor to cardiac disease in some individuals with Type A Behavior Pattern. A number of studies have focused on the relationship between social support and Type A traits in subjects without cardiac disease as a means of evaluating this hypothesis; however, results of these studies have been confusing. In the current study, involving samples of adolescents and working adults, there was a significant positive correlation between Type A scores and satisfaction with social support in men but not in women.