Correlations among different measurements of Type A behavior were studied in 1949 randomly selected healthy Finnish adolescents and young adults. Agreement among the tests was very low. There were higher correlations for different measurements evaluated by using self-assessment than for scores on the same test evaluated by the subjects themselves and by observers.
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