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Personality and Mortality in Old Age
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We examined the relation of personality to mortality in 883 older Catholic clergy members (69% women). At baseline, they completed the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, which assesses the five principal dimensions of personality. They were followed for a mean of 5.1 years, during which 182 deaths occurred. Risk of death was nearly doubled in those with a high neuroticism score (90th percentile) compared with a low score (10th percentile) and was approximately halved in those with a high conscientiousness score compared with a low score. Findings for extraversion were mixed, and neither agreeableness nor openness was strongly related to mortality. The results suggest that personality is associated with mortality in old age.
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“This Big 5 dimension has been linked to lower all-cause mortality risk across a number of studies [54–57] (see also [58]).”
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“This Big 5 dimension has been linked to lower all-cause mortality risk across a number of studies [54–57] (see also [58]).”
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“In general, there is good evidence that higher level of conscientiousness and lower levels of hostility and Type D or “distressed” personality are associated with greater longevity.”
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“In general, there is good evidence that higher level of conscientiousness and lower levels of hostility and Type D or “distressed” personality are associated with greater longevity.”
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“Higher levels of Openness have been associated with decreased risk for all-cause mortality in a Japanese community sample [54]”
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“a 5-year follow-up period in a Japanese [54] community samples”
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“No associations between Neuroticism and all-cause mortality were observed in US [117] and Japanese [54] community samples.”
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“Agreeableness did not appear as a robust predictor of longevity in four other studies [54–57].”
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“Agreeableness did not appear as a robust predictor of longevity in four other studies [54–57].”
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Sources of Life Strengths as Predictors of Late-Life Mortality and Survivorship
Fry, P. S., & Debats, D. L. (2006) · The International Journal of Aging and Human Development · doi:10.2190/3vat-d77g-vcnq-6t61 · Cited by 58
“Other researchers (e.g., Wilson et al., 2004) provide more recent evidence to show that personality factors such as neuroticism, openness, and extraversion have a somewhat distal but robust influence on mortality, and which may be different for men and women.”
BackgroundDuchek, J. M., Aschenbrenner, A. J., Fagan, A. M., Benzinger, T. L. S., Morris, J. C., & Balota, D. A. (2019) · Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society · doi:10.1017/s1355617719001358 · Cited by 57
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“Another sample of all-male clergy found opposite results—mortality risk was nearly two times higher for those with high neuroticism [29].”
Bridging human and animal research: A comparative approach to studies of personality and health
Mehta, P. H., & Gosling, S. D. (2008) · Brain Behavior and Immunity · doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2008.01.008 · Cited by 62
“…example, human researchers have uncovered a robust positive relationship between conscientiousness and longevity (Christensen et al., 2002; Martin et al., 2007; Weiss and Costa, 2005; Wilson et al., 2004), but have struggled to identify mediators of this relationship (e.g., Martin et al., 2007).”
InfluentialOpenness to Experience and Mortality in Men: Analysis of Trait and Facets
Turiano, N. A., Spiro, A., & Mroczek, D. K. (2012) · Journal of Aging and Health · doi:10.1177/0898264311431303 · Cited by 72
“Wilson et al. (2004) used a sample of mostly retired Catholic clergy with a 5-year followup and a mean age of 75 at entry.”
MethodKuźma, E., Sattler, C., Toro, P., Schönknecht, P., & Schröder, J. (2011) · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders · doi:10.1159/000332082 · Cited by 57
Personality Traits and Successful Aging
Baek, Y., Martin, P., Siegler, I. C., Davey, A., & Poon, L. W. (2016) · The International Journal of Aging and Human Development · doi:10.1177/0091415016652404 · Cited by 59
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Hagger‐Johnson, G., Sabia, S., Nabi, H., Brunner, E. J., Mika Kivimaki, B., Shipley, M. J., & Singh‐Manoux, A. (2012) · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2012.05.007 · Cited by 50
“Adjustment for potential confounding and mediating factors does not appear to attenuate the association markedly [17–20].”
Personality and Survival in Older Age: The Role of Lifestyle Behaviors and Health Status
Rizzuto, D., Mossello, E., Fratiglioni, L., Santoni, G., & Wang, H. (2017) · American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.jagp.2017.06.008 · Cited by 50
“traits assessed by the NEO-FFI scales and the same traits assessed by the NEO Personality Inventory scales (8).”
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Sources of human life-strengths, resilience, and health
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Personality traits and medical outcome of cardiac illness
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“A five year study by Wilson et al. (2004) of older he topic and approach to the and consulted with statistie drafts of the manuscript as 2, San Francisco, CA 94123, All rights reserved.”
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Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Longevity? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis
Turiano, N. A., Graham, E. K., Weston, S. J., Booth, T., Harrison, F., James, B. D., Lewis, N. A., Makkar, S. R., Mueller, S., Wisniewski, K. M., et al. (2020) · Collabra Psychology · doi:10.1525/collabra.268 · Cited by 42
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Stability and change in genetic and environmental components of personality in old age
Read, S., Vogler, G. P., Pedersen, N. L., & Johansson, B. E. A. (2006) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.01.004 · Cited by 33
“The results replicated earlier findings of survival (Nilsson, 1983; Pedersen & Reynolds, 1998; Wilson et al., 2004), with lower extraversion scores and higher neuroticism scores among those who died before the next measurement occasion than those who survived.”
ResultGenetic Influences on Life Span and Its Relationship to Personality
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Sense of Purpose Promotes Resilience to Cognitive Deficits Attributable to Depressive Symptoms
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“…studies have demonstrated that the broadly defined trait of neuroticism is associated with increased risk of objective health problems and mortality (Lahey, 2009, Wilson et al., 2004), while conscientiousness has been found to relate to healthy behaviors and longevity (Kern and Friedman, 2008).”
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Positive attitude towards life and emotional expression as personality phenotypes for centenarians
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BackgroundInfluentialPersonality Factors in the Long Life Family Study
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Personality Traits and Circadian Blood Pressure Patterns
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wilson, R. S., Mendes de Leon, C. F., Bienias, J. L., Evans, D. A., & Bennett, D. A.
- Affiliations
- Rush University Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wilson, Robert S.
- Venue
- The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-05-01
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- P110-P116
- ISSN
- 1079-5014 (ISSN-L)
- 1758-5368
- OpenAlex
- W2169449626
- Cited by
- 182
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 16
- FWCI
- 11.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journals of Gerontology Series B (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (P30-AG 10161, R01 AG15819, R01AG015819, P30AG010161)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Keywords
- personality, mortality, older adults, neuroticism, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, Big Five personality traits, Catholic clergy, mortality risk
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Catholicism, Chicago, Clergy, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mortality, Personality, Risk, Proportional Hazards Models
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