Type A Personality Traits

Traits of Type A Behavior
What specific characteristics make up Type A personality? For some people, the term applies to rude and impatient people. Others see workaholics as Type A. Many see competitiveness as the main characteristic.

According to research, the following characteristics are the hallmark characteristics of Type A Behavior / personality Pattern:

• Impatience and Time Stress: 

1. ​ frustrated while waiting in line,
2. interrupt others, 
3. walk and talk at a rapid pace, and
4. are too focused on how little time they have to accomplish their list of goals.

 

• Irritability or Aggressiveness, demonstrating impatience, rudeness, being irritable over small things, and ‘having a short fuse.'

Additionally, Type A Personality often includes:

• Competitiveness: these people need to "win" at everything from work to relationships, even if these activities aren't inherently competitive.
• Strong Achievement-Orientation: Type A people tend to get their feelings of self-worth from what they achieve.
• A Need for Dominance: Many Type A people try to show dominance in business and personal interactions, disregarding the wishes and needs of others in favor of their own.
• Certain Physical Characteristics: these result from stress and from years of Type A behavior, and are listed below.

Type A Behavior also manifests in the following physical characteristics:

• Tense face (tight lips, clenched jaw, etc.)
• Tongue clicking or teeth grinding
• Dark circles under eyes
• Facial sweating (on forehead or upper lip)