Ray J J, Simons L A
Br J Med Psychol. 1982 Sep;55(3):215-8. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1982.tb01500.x.
Clients at the Sydney Coronary Heart Disease Prevention Programme were screened for actual CHD and sufferers were compared with non-suffers on four personality scales to measure, respectively, A-B, dominance, achievement motivation and 'freneticism'. There were 112 sufferers and 201 controls. Sufferers were found to have significantly higher scores on dominance-the Ray (1976) Directiveness scale-but also to have significantly lower scores on the A-B measure. This latter reversal of the usual relationship was an artifact of the fact that older people are both more CHD prone and get lower A-B scores. When age was controlled for there was no relationship between A-B type and CHD. This left the authoritarian style of dominance measured by the Directiveness scale as the sole predictor of CHD. This was held to be a belated vindication of claims made in the pioneering work of Dunbar (1943).
悉尼冠心病预防项目的参与者接受了实际冠心病的筛查，并将患者与非患者在四种人格量表上进行比较，以分别测量A - B型人格、支配性、成就动机和“狂热性”。患者有112人，对照组有201人。结果发现，患者在支配性——雷（1976年）指令性量表上的得分显著更高，但在A - B测量中的得分也显著更低。后一种通常关系的逆转是由于老年人既更容易患冠心病，且A - B得分更低这一事实造成的假象。当对年龄进行控制后，A - B型人格与冠心病之间没有关系。这使得由指令性量表测量的独裁式支配风格成为冠心病的唯一预测因素。这被认为是对邓巴（1943年）开创性工作中所提出观点的迟来的证明。
