The Impatience of Youth
Phasic Cardiovascular Response in Type A and Type B Elementary School-Aged Boys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19303365 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard J Jennings (University of Pittsburgh), Karen A Matthews (0000-0001-8193-2202, University of Pittsburgh) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 498-511 |
| Publication date | 1984-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00006842-198411000-00003 |
| PMID | 6514950 |
| OpenAlex | W2327526016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Impatience, one major Type A characteristic, alters the performance of tasks requiring anticipation and accurate responding. Beat-by-beat changes in heart rate are also known to occur during anticipatory attention. In college- and middle-aged adult samples, impatience is related to these beat-by-beat heart rate changes during anticipatory attention. The objective of the current study was to see if this relationship was also present in children classified by the impatience-aggression scale of the Matthews Youth Test for Health, a measure of children's Type A behaviors. In study 1, 34 fifth-grade boys performed a modified Pong task. In study 2, 30 fourth-grade boys performed a variable interval simple reaction time task. In both studies, patient and impatient boys showed different beat-by-beat heart rate responses. The results were generally, but not wholly, consistent with the view that impatience leads to a late developing and quickly recovering but robust deceleration at the time of an anticipated event. Consistencies as well as inconsistencies of our findings with the results from college- and middle-aged samples are discussed
Aggression · Anticipation (artificial intelligence) · Audiology · Beat (acoustics) · Blood pressure · Developmental psychology · Heart rate · Personality · Type A and Type B personality theory · Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder · Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1989 - 1991 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |