The Type A and Type B personality theory (or Type A and Type B behavior pattern) divides the population of humans into two groups, based on their personality characteristics.

People who fall under Type A exhibit characteristics such as being impatient, excessively time-conscious, insecure about one's status, highly competitive, hostile and aggressive, and incapable of relaxation.[1] Type A individuals are often high-achieving workaholics who multi-task, drive themselves with deadlines, and are unhappy about the smallest of delays. Although they may exhibit some or all of these characteristics, it does not mean that people with the type A personality are incapable of showing love, affection or other types of non-pessimistic behavior. Many are also capable of "coaching" some of these behavior attributes with proper treatment and medication. Those who do not seek treatment have been described as stress junkies, and often display some of the following characteristics:

1. An intrinsic insecurity or insufficient level of self-esteem, which is considered to be the root cause of the syndrome. This is believed to be covert and therefore less observable.
2. Time urgency and impatience, which causes irritation and exasperation.
3. Free floating hostility, which can be triggered even over little incidents.[2]

The Type B personality, in contrast, is patient, relaxed, and easy-going. They are also more creative and imaginative, inclined to self-analyze and evasive of stressful situations, and bad at coping when found therein. There is also a Type AB or Type X mixed profile for people who cannot be clearly categorized and have a combination of both types of personality.



Note: So yeah, I am a Type A personality, and I wanted to ask my fellow Type A's if you stress out like crazy too, over-analyze EVERYTHING, worry like there is no tomorrow, and get easily sad over things like not getting an A on a grade. If your like that, then we are the same.

More importantly, I want to know how you get past that competitive to the core nature, stressaholic attitude, and learn to just relax. I feel like I am going to have an Ulcer before I'm 25. Nothing is ever good enough, even when I am successful, I feel like I should have done better. I always tend to feel tense, and you can tell cause my neck is always tight.

I am FOR SURE a type a. Im a perfectionist in EVERYTHING and ANYTHING i do. I get stressed out pretty often especially with school and my job (balancing the two x(). In these moments, when i get stressed, i just usually:

1)go on msn and talk to a couple of my friends about my day and let it all out
2)take a nap, while listening to music in the background as i sleep
3)take a hot and steamy shower

From those descriptions,

I'm a type A
and type B sounds like my hubby

I guess that's good, balance each other

Same here. Our personalities are quite opposite to begin with and it evens out quite nicely.

deffinitely A lol...
"Free floating hostility" wow.. dead-on haha!
I'm also VERY time-conscious, always punctuel, i hate when people are late all the time, drives me INSANE

Everyone in my psych class took this "quiz" the prof put up to see if we're type A or type B and there were 10 questions.

...I turned out to be Type "AB" LOL (I got 5 and 5 ) which is fairly accurate haha

I seems to fit into both category, but more of a type A.

VCE 12 Psychology FTW!

xD I'm an AB. Bit of both worlds I am. Mostly B though.

I HAVE to be A. It fits me to a T

I wish I was AB though. Sounds nicely balanced D<

I'm blood type AB+

haha

best of both worlds yo!

My dad is Type A.
My mom is AB
and I'm Type B =)

i'm type B and it's true ..

Type A. I only read up to impatient. xD


To avoid being so.. completely A, I try to be more relaxed.. by.. ignoring things? I'm getting better at it. But maybe ignore isn't a very good word. Just think less, and realize that under most circumstances, things won't change, regardless of the amount of work or stress or thinking you put in. Believe in predestination?

i am a type A without a doubt.
that description fits me too well.
my neck's always tight too.
DEAD ON!

LOL, it's not bloodtype, silly! It's personality type!

I think i'm B. I never do any homework but somehow i manage. School is usually relaxing. Except for some classes when i don't know the answer and i'm nervous haha.

i'm type B...usually chill and i never worry or get really angry that much, always takin it easy haha.

from what i heard, isnt like type b irresponsible, instead of calm.
Like in the korean movie "my Boyfriend is type b"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Boyfriend_Is_Type_B

Correct me if im wrong

^^ That's blood type totally different from personality type.

Anywho I'm a B. I don't stress out too much on anything because I am just laid back with everything (:

I'm a TYPE A


I'm EXTREMELY time-concious and impatient. I'm not a creature of habit but I have to operate on a well-organized time schedule even when it's my day off or when I'm on vacation. Each activity has its own time slot and I HATE when people throw off my schedule. I tend to overanalyze and overthink and I can get extremely competitive even when it's over something stupid.

I think I'm a mix of both Type A and B
XD

I used to be Type A to the extreme (the kinda girl who'd freak out about getting a 98%, ugh haha). But over the years I've mellowed out a lot, although for some things I'm still very Type A. I'm a combo of both, more so B though.

I'm a Type B.
But I like to over-analyze things. :o

I'm Type A... I am super impatient and easily annoyed by inefficiency.

I'm more of a Type B than A.

I swear many people need to learn how to take it easier. >_>

i have no idea which one i am because they sound like me =/ just at diff. times >__<

im totally type B
Procrastination<33~