Type A behaviour and its impact on the anxiety level of professional women

ABSTRACT

The present study was undertaken to explore the Type A behaviour and its impact on the anxiety level of professional women. The sample consisted 170 professional women belonging to two different professions, namely, teaching and medical. It was hypothesized that anxiety level of Type A professional women will be significantly high than Type B women. The sample of the professional women was classified into Type A and Type B personality on the basis of scores they obtained on the Anjum Khalique Type A Scale [Anjum and Khalique, 1991]. The Self Analysis Form [Anxiety Scale; Krug, Scheier, and Cattell, 1976] and Leventhal Scale for Anxiety of California Psychological Inventory [Leventhal, 1966/1968] were used to measure anxiety of the Type A and Type B women. Result showed that Type A women obtained significantly high mean score on both scales of anxiety as compared to Type B professional women. The results confirmed the research hypothesis: