Type A / Type B Personality Test

The Type A / Type B framework describes a behavioural style, not a fixed personality type. It comes from cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, who in 1959 noticed a cluster of habits in some of their patients: a strong sense of time urgency, competitiveness, a fast working pace, and a tendency toward impatience and irritation. They labelled this pattern 'Type A' and the more relaxed, even-paced counterpart 'Type B'. Most people aren't purely one or the other — they sit somewhere on a continuum and shift along it depending on the situation.

This test is a 12-item educational self-report that places your everyday tendencies on that Type A–Type B continuum. Higher scores lean toward the time-urgent, driven, competitive end; lower scores lean toward the calmer, steadier end; mid-range scores describe a flexible mix. It is a quick mirror for noticing your default pace and reactivity — useful for self-awareness, not a label that defines you.

One important honesty note: the original Friedman–Rosenman claim that Type A behaviour directly causes heart disease has not held up consistently in later research. Modern studies point specifically to chronic hostility and anger — not drive, ambition, or busyness — as the health-relevant part of the pattern. So treat this as a self-reflection on working style, not a medical screening or a cardiac-risk assessment.