Relations between type A scores, internal locus of control and test anxiety

Two samples, consisting of 99 high school students and 338 introductory psychology students, completed questionnaires that provided measures of the achievement striving and impatience-irritability components of Type A behaviour, internal locus of control and test anxiety. Results for both samples showed that achievement striving was positively related to internal control and impatience-irritability was negatively related to internal control. Impatience-irritability was positively related to test anxiety but achievement striving and test anxiety were unrelated. The findings help resolve past inconsistent findings concerning relations between Type A behaviour, locus of control and test anxiety. They also underline the importance of studying the separate components of Type A behaviour.