207k views
3 votes
Bill Clinton has been diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Like many with this disease, Clinton has a number of risk factors, including family history and diet and exercise patterns. Researchers have also examined the impact of personality on heart disease risk and found that particular components of the "Type A" personality is associated with increased risk. What are these components?

1 Answer

3 votes

Answer:

Components of Type A personality associated with Bill Clinton Includes:

  • Less job satisfaction with more related stress.
  • Rigidly organized
  • Highly conscious
  • Sensitive
  • Concerned with time management.
  • Impatient
  • high achieving workaholics

Step-by-step explanation:

Background Knowledge:

Two Cardiologist (Heart doctors) Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman develop the theory of personality. According to them there are two personality type of persons.

Type A: In there hypothesis, Type A personality holders have characteristics of ambitious, highly aware of time management, aggressive, highly organized, more competitive, impatient.

Type B: While Type B personality holders are more relaxed, explainable, Less panic and less brainy.

These two cardiologists believed that Type personality holders had a greater chance of developing coronary heart disease.

Components of Type A personality associated with Bill Clinton Includes:

  • Less job satisfaction with more related stress.
  • Rigidly organized
  • Highly conscious
  • Sensitive
  • Concerned with time management.
  • Impatient
  • high achieving workaholics

Researches showed that all these conditions have high level of correlation with Coronary Heart diseases.

User Yevhenii Kosmak
by
4.8k points