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Both these personalities are important in that they both have excellent characteristics
which help to achieve goals but their approach to life and reaching goals vary a great
deal. The Type A and Type B personality theory was developed out of observations
of patients, who came for treatment either for stress related disorders or hypertension
and who suffered from migraine or other forms of disorders including extreme anxiety
etc. As the in depth understanding of these persons took place it came to light that
these are persons who are anxiety prone and possess certain characteristics that
describe a pattern of behaviours that could be characterised as Type A, indicative
of the person’s vulnerability to stress, anxiety etc.
, and are prone to develop psychosomatic disorders. Such persons were found to be more prone to develop
coronary heart disease. Although, the theory has been widely criticized for lacking
scientific rigour, it is still being used by many
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