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Abstract
These are stressors arising from the individual characteristics of the workers themselves. One of such is the Type a personality or Type Behavioral pattern which research has shown is characterized by excessive drive and competitiveness, a sense of urgency, impatience and underlying hostility (Friedman and Rosenman, 1974; Rosenaman, 1978). Workers with this personality type have been found to experience or report higher stress than other personality types, e.g. Type B, under the same workload (Kirmeyer, 1988; Payne et al, 1988).