Agastya is a highly motivated executive who lacks patience, feels short of time and is forever burdened with work. He finds difficulty in slowing down. Identify his personality type on the basis of Friedman and Roserman’s Classification.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is Type A.

Explanation:

Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman classified personality types into Type A and Type B patterns based on their observations of behavior patterns related to coronary heart disease risk. Later research added Type C and Type D personality patterns.

Let us understand the characteristics of each personality type to see why Agastya falls under Type A:

1. Type A Personality: Individuals with a Type A personality are characterized by high motivation, competitiveness, impatience, a constant sense of time urgency (feeling short of time), and an inability to relax or slow down. They often feel overburdened with work and try to do too many things in too little time. This matches Agastya's description perfectly.
2. Type B Personality: This is the opposite of Type A. People with Type B personalities are generally relaxed, patient, easy-going, and do not experience a constant sense of time urgency.
3. Type C Personality: Individuals with a Type C personality tend to be cooperative, unassertive, patient, and suppress their negative emotions (particularly anger) to please others.
4. Type D Personality: People with Type D personalities experience high levels of negative affectivity (distress) and social inhibition, tending to avoid sharing their emotions with others due to fear of rejection.

Since Agastya is highly motivated, lacks patience, feels short of time, feels burdened with work, and finds it difficult to slow down, his behavior aligns precisely with the characteristics of a Type A personality.