The environment and its relationship to the Type A behavior pattern in middle and old age, a pilot study

21 men and 76 women between the ages of 68.0 and 97.0 yr. were administered the Geriatric Scale of Recent Life Events, the Jenkins Activity Survey, the Framingham Type A Scale, and a measure designed to assess factors in the environment believed to contribute to the development and maintenance of the Type A Behavior Pattern. Differences were found between the environment of old age and the retrospective middle-age environment. Results support that Type A behavior emerges in response to environmental elicitors.