Striving for Success is a Double-Edged Sword - Queendom.com Releases Results of Their Research on Type A Personalities
Queendom releases results from their study on people with Type A personality traits, and reveals the downside of striving for success.
Montreal, Canada, June 23, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Queendom.com, one of the web's foremost sources of personality, career, and IQ assessments, unveils some interesting results of their popular Type A Personality Test. Their study results indicate that some people who strive for glory may end up sacrificing their peace of mind, physical health, and sense of satisfaction with life in general.
People with a Type A Personality are characterized by two main traits: strong Achievement Striving (made up of competitiveness, perfectionism, and drive), and strong Impatience/Irritability (made up of hostility, time urgency, tough-mindedness, and reward orientation). While Achievement Striving can be productive and is conducive to success, it can be taken to an extreme (case in point: overachievers and workaholics). The Impatience/Irritability side of Type A people is often the most damaging; there is a constant need to get things done now, the inability to trust, depend on, or open up to others, and the intense desire to get more and more money, status, and power.
Queendom collected data for their Type A Personality Test from a sample of over 7,500 people. Their analysis reveals a number of interesting differences in the traits that characterize Type A Personality. Gender comparisons indicate that while women have a greater sense of time urgency, men tend to be more competitive and tough-minded (rigid in thought and conduct; uncomfortable with expression of emotion), and motivated by external incentives like money and status.
Age comparisons reveal that the scores for competitiveness, hostility, tough-mindedness, reward orientation, perfectionism, achievement striving, and impatience/irritability tend to peak between the ages of 25-29, and then drop steadily.
Achievement in school revealed that top achievers scored highest on competitiveness, drive, and achievement striving, while below average students scored highest on hostility, tough-mindedness, and impatience/irritability. Interestingly, students with top grades and those with below average grades had almost identical scores on time urgency and perfectionism. Those with good grades (above average, but not in the top 5%) were the least likely to use or need rewards as a source of motivation.
"Success can come at a price," explains Dr. Jerabek, president of the company. "Type As can achieve great things if they channel their achievement orientation in a healthy way. The problem is, Type As spend so much time and energy on achieving one success after another that they don't actually have the time to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Not to mention the fact that personality-wise, they can often be seen as abrasive, impatient, and self-absorbed."
And if the world needed additional proof that more money doesn't necessarily make a person happy, Queendom's data reveals that individuals in the highest salary bracket ($100, 000 or more) scored higher than the other income groups on all the traits related to Type A personality. Workaholics, not surprisingly, scored higher than non-workaholics on the Type A traits. However, when it comes to work satisfaction and performance, those who are not satisfied with their job and those whose performance has been rated poorly scored the highest on hostility, time urgency, tough-mindedness, reward orientation, perfectionism, and impatience/irritability. Remarkably, those who love their job and perform well and those who hate their job and perform poorly are equally competitive and driven - the difference between these two groups and their success orientation however, may be found in their definition of success and its implications.
Those who wish to take the Type A Personality Test can go to: http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=1126
About Queendom.com
Queendom.com is a subsidiary of PsychTests AIM Inc. Queendom.com is a site that creates an interactive venue for self-exploration with a healthy dose of fun. The site offers a full range of professional-quality, scientifically-validated psychological assessments that empower people to grow and reach their real potential through insightful feedback and detailed, custom-tailored analysis.
About PsychTests AIM Inc:
PsychTests AIM Inc. originally appeared on the internet scene in 1996. Since its inception, it has become a pre-eminent provider of psychological assessment products and services to human resource personnel, therapists, academics, researchers and a host of other professionals around the world. PsychTests AIM Inc. staff is comprised of a dedicated team of psychologists, test developers, researchers, statisticians, writers, and artificial intelligence experts. The company's research division, Plumeus Inc., is supported in part by the Research and Development Tax Credit awarded by Industry Canada.
Contact:
Ilona Jerabek, Ph.D., President
PsychTests AIM Inc.
http://testyourself.psychtests.com/
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People with a Type A Personality are characterized by two main traits: strong Achievement Striving (made up of competitiveness, perfectionism, and drive), and strong Impatience/Irritability (made up of hostility, time urgency, tough-mindedness, and reward orientation). While Achievement Striving can be productive and is conducive to success, it can be taken to an extreme (case in point: overachievers and workaholics). The Impatience/Irritability side of Type A people is often the most damaging; there is a constant need to get things done now, the inability to trust, depend on, or open up to others, and the intense desire to get more and more money, status, and power.
Queendom collected data for their Type A Personality Test from a sample of over 7,500 people. Their analysis reveals a number of interesting differences in the traits that characterize Type A Personality. Gender comparisons indicate that while women have a greater sense of time urgency, men tend to be more competitive and tough-minded (rigid in thought and conduct; uncomfortable with expression of emotion), and motivated by external incentives like money and status.
Age comparisons reveal that the scores for competitiveness, hostility, tough-mindedness, reward orientation, perfectionism, achievement striving, and impatience/irritability tend to peak between the ages of 25-29, and then drop steadily.
Achievement in school revealed that top achievers scored highest on competitiveness, drive, and achievement striving, while below average students scored highest on hostility, tough-mindedness, and impatience/irritability. Interestingly, students with top grades and those with below average grades had almost identical scores on time urgency and perfectionism. Those with good grades (above average, but not in the top 5%) were the least likely to use or need rewards as a source of motivation.
"Success can come at a price," explains Dr. Jerabek, president of the company. "Type As can achieve great things if they channel their achievement orientation in a healthy way. The problem is, Type As spend so much time and energy on achieving one success after another that they don't actually have the time to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Not to mention the fact that personality-wise, they can often be seen as abrasive, impatient, and self-absorbed."
And if the world needed additional proof that more money doesn't necessarily make a person happy, Queendom's data reveals that individuals in the highest salary bracket ($100, 000 or more) scored higher than the other income groups on all the traits related to Type A personality. Workaholics, not surprisingly, scored higher than non-workaholics on the Type A traits. However, when it comes to work satisfaction and performance, those who are not satisfied with their job and those whose performance has been rated poorly scored the highest on hostility, time urgency, tough-mindedness, reward orientation, perfectionism, and impatience/irritability. Remarkably, those who love their job and perform well and those who hate their job and perform poorly are equally competitive and driven - the difference between these two groups and their success orientation however, may be found in their definition of success and its implications.
Those who wish to take the Type A Personality Test can go to: http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=1126
About Queendom.com
Queendom.com is a subsidiary of PsychTests AIM Inc. Queendom.com is a site that creates an interactive venue for self-exploration with a healthy dose of fun. The site offers a full range of professional-quality, scientifically-validated psychological assessments that empower people to grow and reach their real potential through insightful feedback and detailed, custom-tailored analysis.
About PsychTests AIM Inc:
PsychTests AIM Inc. originally appeared on the internet scene in 1996. Since its inception, it has become a pre-eminent provider of psychological assessment products and services to human resource personnel, therapists, academics, researchers and a host of other professionals around the world. PsychTests AIM Inc. staff is comprised of a dedicated team of psychologists, test developers, researchers, statisticians, writers, and artificial intelligence experts. The company's research division, Plumeus Inc., is supported in part by the Research and Development Tax Credit awarded by Industry Canada.
Contact:
Ilona Jerabek, Ph.D., President
PsychTests AIM Inc.
http://testyourself.psychtests.com/
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