What is an "type A" personality?

Question

I am not sure what it is. Please gie personality charaterics if possible

Answer 1

Type A personality, also known as the Type A Behavior Pattern, is a set of characteristics that includes being impatient, excessively time-conscious, insecure about one's status, highly competitive, hostile and aggressive, and incapable of relaxation. Type A individuals are often highly achieving workaholics who multi-task, drive themselves with deadlines, and are unhappy about the smallest of delays. They have been described as stress junkies.

Answer 2

According to Friedman (1996), Type A behavior is expressed in three major symptoms, one covert and hidden, as well as two additional factors that are more overt and observable:

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.
Time urgency and impatience, which causes irritation and exasperation.
Free floating hostility, which can be triggered even over little incidents
*this basically describing what some would consider an anal-retentive individual. I would just call someone like this "a serious pain in the butt"

Answer 3

I'll do this like the comedy channel does red necks

if you ever had mercury shots for hyperactivity u may be a type A
if you ever been locked in a bed room for 2 years you may be a typeA
if you ever had the hotest car in town u may be a type A
if you ever achieved the label "rate breaker" u may be type A
if you ever had sex eleven times a day u may be type A
if you ever were yadda yadda~LOL get the meaning, jack~of~all trades, teach anything, build anything, can do anything, has been everywhere, and it uses up a lot of energy and money

Answer 4

Even the so-called experts don't diagnose it correctly. There are two cardinal features of type A that we must remember, namely, "time urgency or time- impatience" and "free-floating (all pervasive and ever-present) hostility."

google "type A" for many other sites.

Answer 5

I would say it's better than an AA personality, but not quite as good as an A plus personality. Just a hunch.