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Psychological Components of Type A Behavior

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Time urgency is, as I shall demonstrate in Chapter 3, the major overt type A behavior (TAB) component. It is essentially a persistent feeling the TAB person has that there is not or will not be sufficient time to accomplish the things that he or she feels should be done.

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© 1996 Plenum Press, New York

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Friedman, M. (1996). Psychological Components of Type A Behavior. In: Type A Behavior: Its Diagnosis and Treatment. Prevention in Practice Library. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0395-4_2

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