Journal
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 309-317Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614553248
Keywords
personality; health; disease; conscientiousness; openness; neuroticism
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- National Institute on Aging [NIA U01AG009740]
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While personality traits have been linked concurrently to health status and prospectively to outcomes such as mortality, it is currently unknown whether traits predict the diagnosis of a number of specific diseases (e.g., lung disease, heart disease, and stroke) that may account for their mortality effects more generally. A sample (N = 6,904) of participants from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal study of older adults, completed personality measures and reported on current health conditions. Four years later, participants were followed up to see if they developed a new disease. Initial cross-sectional analyses replicated past findings that personality traits differ across disease groups. Longitudinal logistic regression analyses predicting new disease diagnosis suggest that traits are associated with the risk of developing diseasemost notably the traits of conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. Findings are discussed as a means to identify pathways between personality and health.
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