After you have entered your answers, click the Submit Answers button to review your answers.
You can then click the E-mail The Results button to send the results to yourself or to your professor.

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We highlighted in this chapter how people cope with stress by using a variety of control, escape, and symptom management strategies. Your ability to effectively cope with your Type A tendencies is very important because ineffective coping can make a stressful situation even worse.

A Free Type A Personality Test

The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with feedback on your "Type A" behavior. Go to the home page www.queendom.com. In the search box on the right, type in "Type A Personality Test" and click on the heading "Type A Personality Test." (don't take the abridged version). Agree to the "personal purposes only' clause and get started.

Complete the assessment and submit your score for automatic scoring. (Note: Our use of this questionnaire is for instructional purposes only and does not constitute an endorsement of any products that may or may not suit your needs. There is no obligation to buy anything.). Read through the interpretation of your results and answer the following questions.

1			How did you score? Are you surprised by the results?
2			Based on the interpretation of your results, what can you do to improve your Type A tendencies? How might you also reduce your level of perceived stress?