erson's identity (Gerzon, 1997).
             What is personality? Personality constitutes a relatively enduring set of behaviors that characterize the individual (Magill, 1998). There are 16 different types of personality, each consisting of five main characteristics. The Personality Theory seeks to describe and explain the characteristics of thought, feeling, and behavior that differ among individuals and the coherence of these characteristics within a single individual. It describes approaches to human nature, and provides the foundation for psychological therapies (Beers, 1998). In this paper, types A and B will be the main focal point.
             Dr. Friedman and Rosenman developed the idea of two different genetic groups A and B (Weiten, 1998). Originally, the two doctors were investigating the cause of the coronary heart disease. They were terribly confused with patients who seemed perfectly healthy, yet developed the disease. Eventually, they came to the conclusion that personality and stress were slightly correlated with coronary risk. Thus, they named this syndrome Type A Personality (Weiten, 1998). People with type A are characterized by attributes such as hard driving effort, constant striving for achievement, competitiveness, aggressivity, haste, impatience, restlessness, alertness, uneven bursts of amplitude in speech, and hurried motor movement. Type B's feel less time urgency, value leisure time and use it without guilt, are more likely to be committed to meaningful life goals, react more slowly, are more self-accepting and less self-critical, and are more thoughtful, relaxed and contemplati
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