Agastya is a highly motivated executive who lacks patience, feels sho…

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 Rosenman's Classification.

Answer & explanation

Correct answer: option 1

The correct answer is Option (1) → Type A

Option (1) Type A — Correct. Friedman and Rosenman found that people with Type-A personality seem to possess high motivation, lack patience, feel short of time, be in a great hurry, and feel always burdened with work; they find it difficult to slow down and relax. Agastya fits every point, and such people are more prone to hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Option (2) Type B — Incorrect. Type-B personality is the absence of Type-A traits: an easy-going, relaxed person who is not driven by time.

Option (3) Type C — Incorrect. Type-C, suggested by Morris, is prone to cancer; such people are cooperative, unassertive and patient, and suppress negative emotions. Agastya is impatient and hurried.

Option (4) Type D — Incorrect. Type-D, suggested more recently, is characterised by proneness to depression. Nothing in Agastya’s description points to depression.

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NCERT (2025-26): “Type Approaches … In recent years, Friedman and Rosenman have classified individuals into Type-A and Type-B personalities. The two researchers were trying to identify psychosocial risk factors when they discovered these types. People characterised by Type-A personality seem to possess high motivation, lack patience, feel short of time, be in a great hurry, and feel like being always burdened with work. Such people find it difficult to slow down and relax. People with Type-A personality are more susceptible to problems like hypertension and coronary heart disease (CHD). The risk of developing CHD with Type-A personality is sometimes even greater than the risks caused by high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, or smoking. Opposite to this is the Type-B personality, which can be understood as the absence of Type-A traits. This typology has been further extended. Morris has suggested a Type-C personality, which is prone to cancer.…”