Disentangling the relationship between the achievement striving and impatience—irritability dimensions of type A behavior, performance and health

Barling, Julian; Charbonneau, Danielle

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“…The achievement striving dimension has been related primarily to performance and positive job attitudes in empirical research but unrelated to health deterioration (Day & Jreige, 2002;Mellam & Espnes, 2003;Spence et al, 1987), whereas the irritability/impatience dimension appears to be related to mental distress and ill-health (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992;Bluen, Barling & Burns, 1990;Day & Jreige, 2002;Kivimäki, Kalimo & Julkunen, 1996;Spence et al, 1987). The present study aimed to further extend previous empirical research on burnout by also investigating how the achievement striving and irritability/impatience dimensions of Type A behavior are associated with burnout and work engagement.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Besides being related to physical complaints such as cardiovascular disease (Miller et al, 1996), Type A individuals also report high levels of psychosomatic complaints (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992;Jamal, 1990), vital exhaustion (Appels, Falger & Schouten, 1993), chronic fatigue (Michielsen, De Vries & Van Heck, 2003), and burnout (Jamal & Vishwanath, 2001;Maslach, 1985;Maslach et al, 2001;Nowack, 1987).…”

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“…Recent research (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992;Day & Jreige, 2002) recognizes two independent underlying dimensions of Type A behavior: achievement striving and irritability/impatience. These dimensions not only appear to show different bivariate correlations with strain outcomes, they also appear to be differently involved in the stressor-strain processes (Edwards, Baglioni & Cooper, 1990;Kivimäki, Kalimo & Julkunen, 1996), which is why it has been recommended that they replace the global construct of Type A behavior for theoretical and scholarly purposes (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992). Some studies (see Spence et al, 1987) indicate that the achievement striving dimension is related primarily to performance and positive job attitudes, whereas the irritability/impatience dimension appears to be related to strain and ill health.…”

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“…Although Type A behavior was introduced as a global construct, more recent research (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992;Day & Jreige, 2002;Spence, Helmreich & Pred, 1987) has recommended the recognition of two main dimensions: 1) achievement striving and 2) irritability/impatience. The achievement striving dimension has been related primarily to performance and positive job attitudes in empirical research but unrelated to health deterioration (Day & Jreige, 2002;Mellam & Espnes, 2003;Spence et al, 1987), whereas the irritability/impatience dimension appears to be related to mental distress and ill-health (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992;Bluen, Barling & Burns, 1990;Day & Jreige, 2002;Kivimäki, Kalimo & Julkunen, 1996;Spence et al, 1987).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A thesis on fire: Studies of work engagement, Type A behavior and burnout

Hallberg¹

2005

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The overall address of the present thesis is the association between being 'on fire' and burnout. More specifically, the thesis focused largely on two representations of involvement in work (work engagement and Type A behavior) and their respective relationships to burnout. Another pervasive theme was construct validity in assessing burnout and work engagement. These themes were addressed in four empirical studies, conducted in a sample of healthcare workers (Study I) and a sample of information communication technology consultants (Studies II, III, and IV). Study I aimed to extend the previously preliminary support for the construct validity of the Swedish version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). The objective of Study II was the discriminant validity of the Utrecht Work engagement Scale (UWES) against the theoretically adjacent constructs of job involvement and organizational commitment. Another objective was the translation and evaluation of a Swedish version of the UWES. In Study III, the aim was to investigate the (cross-sectional) association between Type A behavior, work engagement and burnout. Study III had two foci: 1) whether global Type A behavior interacts with job factors to affect burnout and work engagement, and 2) the associations between the main components of Type A behavior (achievement-striving and irritability/impatience) and burnout as well as work engagement. Study IV concerned the longitudinal relationships between Type A behavior and burnout, and between work engagement and burnout. The results presented in this dissertation support the construct validity of Swedish versions of the MBI and UWES. It was further indicated that emotional exhaustion and depersonalization (or cynicism) constitute the core aspects of burnout, and that work engagement was more prominently associated with lack of health complaints than job involvement and organizational commitment. Global Type A behavior was positively related to work engagement in cross-sectional data but unrelated to burnout. When the dimensionality of Type A behavior was taken into account, it was indicated that the achievement-striving aspect of Type A behavior that was associated with work engagement, whereas irritability was associated with less engagement and more burnout complaints. No indications of an interaction between (global or the sub-dimensions of) Type A behavior and job stress were found. The most important finding of Study IV was that change in Type A behavior was unrelated to change in burnout across time (one-year interval). Furthermore, Study IV supported the notion that work engagement and burnout are bipolar opposites in a work well-being continuum. To conclude, the present thesis suggests that burnout be viewed as an erosion of intrinsic, affective engagement in work, occurring when intrinsic motivation is frustrated by job stress. To avoid conceptual confusion, burnout should be distinguished form exhaustion syndrome, however it should be acknowledged that burnout may have a negative impact on health. The...

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Section: 3d Type a Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: 1c Study Iii: -Study Aimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2005

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“…In fact, almost all of existing environmental and personal factors are variables of academic performance. Nonis and Hudson (2010) (Barling & Charbonneau, 1992); optimism (Schulman, 1999); and behavioral variables, such as time management skills (Paden & Stell, 1997), relate to student performance. What's missing from these surveys are the study habits or strategies that students use to learn, such as paying attention in class, being on time, taking good notes, completing homework in a timely manner, and reading the study materials before a lecture, that are apt to impact their performance.…”

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Revisiting the Study Habits and Performance in Math of Grade 7 Students: A Basis for a Proposed Enhancement Program

2016

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Students fail because they do not know how to study and the study habits of students 30 years ago still rings true today (Pogue, 2000). This descriptive study is aimed at revisiting and investigating the study habits and mathematics performance of 108 randomly selected Grade 7 students from the three public schools of the Municipality of San Manuel, Isabela, Philippines. It utilized questionnaire, observation and group interview as data-gathering instruments. To enrich the data, four teachers and 70 parents were also interviewed. Data were processed using frequency and percentage distributions, mean, standard deviation, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-test, post-hoc analysis using Scheffe and effect size using eta square 2  , and regression analysis.Findings revealed that students perceived study habits as a great factor in attaining excellent academic performance; however, teachers perceived students nowadays to have poor study habits. Meanwhile, parents opposed teachers' perception affirm their children's claim. Furthermore, students' academic performance in mathematics is adequately explained by their study habits and mothers occupation. Consequently, the researcher proposed an enhancement program for the schools to adopt to improve students' performance and study habits in mathematics.

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The nomological and predictive validity of time urgency

1998

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SummaryThe present study developed a nomological network that theoretically linked time urgency to related variables. To test the proposed relationships, time urgency, achievement strivings (AS), and impatience/irritability (II) were utilized as predictors of health and performance 18 months later. Multivariate canonical correlation analyses provided support for a complex nomological network among the predictors and the outcome measures. Redundancy coecients and a rotated structure matrix were employed to identify two signi®cant dimensions, labeled crammers and organizers, that linked the predictors with the outcome measures. The results also indicated that the time urgency subcomponents were dierentially related to several health outcomes. These ®ndings provide further validity evidence for the time urgency construct, and they suggest that time urgency variables should be considered as important predictors of both health and performance outcomes. Directions for future research on time urgency are discussed.

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Disentangling the relationship between the achievement striving and impatience—irritability dimensions of type A behavior, performance and health

Cited by 49 publications

References 17 publications

A thesis on fire: Studies of work engagement, Type A behavior and burnout

A thesis on fire: Studies of work engagement, Type A behavior and burnout

Revisiting the Study Habits and Performance in Math of Grade 7 Students: A Basis for a Proposed Enhancement Program

The nomological and predictive validity of time urgency

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