What's Your Type?

How many of these traits could describe you?

• Ambitious
• Workaholic
• Rigidly organized 
• Multi-tasker
• Competitive 
• Impatient
• Take on more than you can handle
• Want other people to get to the point
• Obsessed with time management
• Have a propensity to anger and hostility

They're all characteristics of people with Type A personalities.  Type A and Type B personality behavior was first described in the 1950s by Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman.  They said that high-strung Type A behavior could raise the chances of developing coronary disease.

I don't consider myself high strung, but I definitely have many of the characteristics of a Type A personality.  To find out just where I was on the Type A/Type B spectrum, I took the Type A Personality Test at Queendom.com.

The test contained 73 statements.  For each of them I had to indicate where I fell on a five-point scale (from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree).  When I was done I received a report with the results.  On a 100-point scale I was pleasantly surprised to see I had a score of 50...right in between the high-strung Type A and the easy-going Type B.

I'm thinking that means I have the best of both.