Personality Types
Personality Types: positive and negative personality traits are associated with two personality types that relate to how people deal with stress and the influence of certain personality characteristics on coronary heart disease.
Type A are workaholics, competitive, ambitious, hate to waste time and are easily annoyed.
Type B are easygoing, slow to anger, relaxed and at peace.
Type C have a higher incidence of cancer. They tend to be peace-keepers, have difficulty expressing emotions, and internalize their anger.
The Hardy Personality (Type H) are committed to their values, feel in control of their lives, see problems as challenges.
Book Suggestions
Below are suggested books from the library that focus on Personality Types that may be useful for your research project.
Stress : from burnout to balance by All over the world, people are experiencing increasing levels of stress due to a variety of reasons which include pressures at the workplace, marital or family stress and changing social mores, among others. This has contributed to deteriorating health and an alarming growth in lifestyle-related diseases, such as diabetes and chronic heart problems. The author presents an absorbing and comprehensive look at the concept of stress and explores its physiological effects, our body's stress responses and its results.
Stress and Hypertension: Examining the relation between psychological stres and high blood presure by Kevin T. Larkin examines more than a half-century of empirical evidence obtained to test the common assumption that stress is associated with the onset and maintenance of essential hypertension (high blood pressure). The book discusses the effectiveness of strategies developed to manage stress and lower blood pressure.
Stress and Quality of Working Life: Interpersonal and Occupation-Based Stress by This book can help individuals and organizations better appreciate stressors faced by employees. It showcases research by over two dozen authors in twelve chapters, focusing on the interpersonal and occupation?based sources of workplace stress, as well as how to alleviate work stress.
Passion and reason : making sense of our emotion by The Lazaruses explore the short- and long-term causes and effects of many emotions, evaluating research on stress and health, and the links between negative emotions and heart disease, cancer, and other physical and mental diseases.
