Journal
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages 687-696Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbs002
Keywords
Extraversion; Negative affect; Neuroticism; Positive affect; Vision and hearing impairment
Funding
- German Research Foundation [WA 809/7-1]
- company KIND Horgerate, Heidelberg, Germany
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Relations between personality and affect are generally regarded as robust. Extraversion is closely linked to positive affect (PA), but not to negative affect (NA), whereas neuroticism is closely linked to NA, but not to PA. We argue in this work that the stress experience associated with age-related vision and hearing impairment may alter this commonly found pattern as compared with sensory unimpaired (UI) older adults. We analyzed data from a sample of severely visually impaired (VI; N = 121), severely hearing impaired (HI; N = 116), and a control condition of sensory UI (grand age mean: 82 years; N = 150). Based on a structural equation modeling approach, we found that the relationship between extraversion and PA was higher in the UI as compared with the sensory impaired groups. In contrast, the strong linkage between neuroticism and NA was not affected by sensory status. Furthermore, we observed a meaningful negative relation between extraversion and NA only in the VI group. Findings support the argument that the relationship between personality and affect deserves qualification when chronic vision and hearing impairment is present.
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