Pick Out Your Personality: Type A or B?

Do you know what kind of person you are? It is important to understand about the personality of human beings because a lot of people do not realize that they were born with these kinds of personalities. People need to know their own personality and how to cope with it related to attitude that can influence their health and also the way they behave with other people around them. There are positive and also negative effects of people with type A or B personality. The type of personality can be classified into two groups which related to attitude, behavior, and also positive and negative effects of having type A or B personality.

Regarding type A personality, generally, these kinds of people have a hostile attitude. They tend to be the most perfectionist people in the world and they are very anxious to do everything correctly without any mistakes. For example, they simply can’t stand the very long lines at stores because they think that they have other important jobs rather than waiting to pay. They are some kinds of people who get stressed easily because those emotional responses will influence their behavior.
People who have type A personality are very diligent to complete their work and very on time. They simply appreciate the time, especially when they have some targets related to their work that need to be achieved. They do their work very fast and carefully and try not to make any mistakes in their reports. Moreover, people with type A personality are very focused on everything they do.

It is a common that people with type A personality have problem with their health. According to Royce, a writer of “Personality Type A or Type B – Which Type of Personality are You?” states that, “The characteristic of type A personality is described as: a hard working, ambitious, than other personality types.” They strongly plan a great ambition in every aspect in their life and keep fighting how to make their life as perfect as they want. For example, they are likely have stress at their jobs when there is a broken computer, a printer that does not work or when they make mistakes in their report that make them redo the work. Therefore, these kinds of events disturb their jobs and can promote heart disease and also high blood pressure.

People with type A personality usually do not have close and warm relationships with their family and neighborhood. They do not have much time together with their family because most of them go to the office very early in the morning and return home at night when their children sleep. Besides, they will not care about every single part of life that happens in their neighborhood that has nothing to do with their needs. They are such impatient and can’t keep their temper. Those kinds of attitudes can make other people not feel very comfortable to visit their house or have a small talk with them. For example, they are very unwilling to let their neighbor’s pets make a mess in their house. Those examples represent how they just want to work without any disturbing neighbors and keep themselves busy so that they simply can’t save time for their family, even to have dinner with the whole family.

According to Anna, a writer of “The Type A Personality Vs: The Type B Personality. Which One are You?” states that, “The type B personality people are more stable.” People who have type B personality are seen as very patient people; for example, they do not care if they have to wait for a long time in line at stores and they are fine with the traffic on the street. They are regarded as the people who are less strict when their jobs start to make them become stress. They are the experts in making themselves enjoy their jobs and control their anger in healthy ways. People with type B personality can minimize the risk of high blood pressure and also heart disease. They usually do not deal with such kinds of disease because they know how to relax in the middle of busy activities. They prefer to stay calm over losing their mind when troubles at work slow them down. People who have type B personality mostly do not have any typical negative effects in attitude and behavior. The only negative effect of type B behavior is less appreciation of time and it is not a big deal if they are late to attend a meeting.

Although people with type A personality are described as ambitious and impatient people, they always try to do their work correctly and carefully even though those kinds of behavior could make them more stressful in their jobs. On the other hand, it is a common truth that people with type B personality are much better in terms of staying healthy with the low risk of high blood pressure and heart disease. They know how to be patient in stressful conditions because they are very relaxed and enjoy their life. In fact, all people in the world were born with different type of personality that they probably do not know about their own type of personality. The important lessons that we can get from the explanation of type A and type B personality are how we can recognize our own personality and how we can deal with it in our life including health, attitude, and behavior.

By : Ariyanti Abdillah
Dep. Tata Usaha