| his study attempted to relate cardiovascular reactivity in 10- and 11-year-old children with measures of type A behavior, negative affectivity, aggression and submission using task heart rate (HR) as a measure of the dependent variable and the following instruments as measures of the independent variables: Student Type A Behavior Scale-R (STABS-R; Kirmil-Grey, Eagleston, Thoresen, Heft, Arnow & Bracke, 1987); The Children's Depression Inventory (CDI; Kovacs, 1983); The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC; Spielberger, 1973); Children's Action Tendency Scale (CATS; Deluty, 1979). Study Participants were 29 male and female Caucasian children who were fifth grade students in a predominantly white middle class elementary school at the time of the investigation. The regression of absolute task HR values on scores from psychological inventories produced the following results: type-A behavior was not significant (p... |
