Investigation on type A behavior characteristics of fire military academy students

Objective To investigate the distribution characteristics of type A behavior of the fire brigade military academy students, and to provide orientation for behavior and psychological adjustment of these individuals. Methods A total of 596 male fire force military academy students were investigated with Zhang Boyuan's questionnaire of type A behavior, and the results were compared with the norm in China. Results Among all the study subjects, 21.64% participants were with A type behavior, 62.99% with B type behavior and 5.37% with intermediate type. The scores of TH and TH+CH factor in these school students were significantly higher than those of the norm in China(t=-17.619,-17.125,P<0.05). The students at higher grade had higher scores of TH, LH and TH+CH factors(P<0.05). The specially enrolled students had lower scores of CH and TH + CH factor than the regular students(t=-3.067,-2.302, P<0.05 or 0.01). The students from urban areas had higher scores of CH and TH+CH factors than students from rural areas(t=3.631,2.428,P<0.05 or 0.01). Conclusion To create the healthy personality, the students with A type behavior should get help to reduce hostility, increase patience, cultivate optimism, experience more positive emotions in the process of competition and cooperation, while the students with B type behavior get help to improve their initiative.