Epidemiological Personology: The Unifying Role of Personality in Population‐Based Research on Problem Behaviors
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Epidemiological personology refers to a paradigm in which a developmental perspective on individual differences is paired with a population‐based sampling frame to yield insights about the role of personality in consequential social outcomes. We review our work in epidemiological personology, linking personality to diverse, problematic social outcomes: Mental disorders, health‐risk behaviors, and violence. We conclude that broad‐band personality measurement is both feasible and fruitful in large‐scale research on problem behaviors, and we call for increased collaboration between personality psychologists and researchers in fields such as public health, epidemiology, and sociology.
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This was proposed as a general principle of epidemiologic personality research over a decade ago.
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“Men’s higher-order alpha-linked traits and negative emotionality, in turn, has been identified as a predictor of both men’s general violence and partner-directed violence (Krueger et al., 2000; Moffitt, Krueger, Caspi, & Fagan, 2000).”
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“Personality traits are styles of relating to the world; they represent tendencies to behave, think, and feel in certain consistent ways that affect interactions with and reactions to external events (Krueger et al., 2000).”
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“individual’s interactions with external world (Krueger et al., 2000).”
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“Scores on this scale are robustly associated with levels of self-reported delinquency in epidemiological samples (Krueger et al., 1994) and have been shown to prospectively predict violent offense behavior (Krueger et al., 2000) and persistence of antisocial deviance more broadly (Krueger, 1999b).”
The dopamine D4 receptor and the hyperactivity phenotype: a developmental-epidemiological study
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“…M anuscript N IH -PA Author M anuscript explained by common genetic factors; this study also showed that alcohol dependence and conduct disorder shared many personality traits (also confirmed by Krueger et al 2000; Sher and Trull 1994) that could be accounted for by common genetic risk factors.”
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“The NZ version is considered to be very similar to the Brief Form (Caspi 2000; Caspi et al. 1997; Krueger et al. 2000; Patrick et al. 2002; Tellegen 1985; Tellegen et al. 1988).”
Facial cues to depressive symptoms and their associated personality attributions
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“Neuroticism and psychological distress represent related but distinct constructs; neuroticism is considered a stable and relatively enduring trait, with a strong genetic component [17], representing a tendency to experience distress frequently [7,19,32].”
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Combined Effects of Neuroticism and Extraversion
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“Personality psychology and epidemiological personology (Krueger et al., 2000) can aid suicide prevention strategies by identifying high-risk individuals and informing the development of public health and clinical interventions tailored to individual characteristics.”
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Spousal recollections of early signs of primary progressive aphasia
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Personality and gambling involvement: A person-centered approach.
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“…and are robust predictors of health-risk behaviors such as unsafe sex and dangerous driving habits (Krueger et al., 2000); important life outcomes like educational attainment, divorce, and longevity (Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi, & Goldberg, 2007); and mental disorders (Krueger et al., 2000).”
Background
- Authors
- Krueger, R. F., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-12
- Volume
- 68
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 967-998
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W1979784961
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 10.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh056344-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-49414, MH 45070, R01MH045070, MH-56344)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
- Keywords
- personality, individual differences, developmental perspective, population-based sampling, behavioral problems, mental illness, health risk behaviors, violence, social outcomes
- MeSH terms
- Mental Disorders, Humans, Personality Disorders, Population Surveillance, Risk-Taking, Violence, Health Behavior
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