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Available information suggests that for the half of American women who are not currently employed, the coronary-prone behavior pattern may be adequately assessed by revised forms of the Rosenman and Friedman Type A interview and the Jenkins Activity Survey, which omit questions on current employment.
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Waldron, I. (1978). Sex Differences in the Coronary-Prone Behavior Pattern. In: Dembroski, T.M., Weiss, S.M., Shields, J.L., Haynes, S.G., Feinleib, M. (eds) Coronary-Prone Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86007-2_15
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