Personality Behavior Pattern

INTRODUCTION: The literature shows that persons exhibiting a type A behavior pattern (an unusual sense of time urgency ,excessive job involvement ,and hostile /competitive interpersonal relationships) are more prone to the risk of initial myocardial infarction (4) . Type A behavior pattern may be defined as “a chronic insistent struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time, even if not required to do so, against the opposing obstacles efforts of other things or other persons." It includes behavioral dispositions such as ambitiousness, aggressiveness, competitiveness and impatience; specific behaviors ,such as muscle tenseness, mental alertness, rapid