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Personality and Health, Subjective Well‐Being, and Longevity
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ABSTRACT Personality traits can be employed to guide understanding of trajectories to health and longevity, but long‐term longitudinal study and multifaceted assessment of healthy aging are crucial. Following up on the life span study initiated by Lewis Terman, we assessed 4 validated factors of personality in young adulthood in 1940, constructed a multifactor measure of participants' healthy aging in 1986, and collected death certificates through 2007 (to determine longevity) on a sample of 1,312 Terman participants (732 men). Neuroticism predicted worse physical health and subjective well‐being in old age and, for women, higher mortality risk, but for men, neuroticism predicted decreased mortality risk. For both sexes, extraversion predicted old‐age social competence, whereas conscientiousness predicted men's old‐age productivity. Differential patterns of association between personality traits and healthy aging components are informative about individual personality characteristics and long‐term health outcomes.
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“They find that Neuroticism is associated with worse health for women but better health for men.”
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“in a cohort of gifted children, Conscientiousness better predicted longevity and social interactions at age 70.”
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“Conscientiousness appears to a protective factor and neuroticism, a risk factor, although neuroticism is occasionally associated with reduced risk (13-15).”
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“In individuals of high SES, however, high neuroticism may actually be protective, perhaps helping to explain sporadic associations of neuroticism with lower mortality appearing in the literature (13-15).”
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“However, in a sample of gifted individuals, elevated Neuroticism was linked to lower all-cause mortality risk in women but higher mortality risk in men [119].”
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“However, in a sample of gifted individuals, elevated Neuroticism was linked to lower all-cause mortality risk in women but higher mortality risk in men [119].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Friedman, H. S., Kern, M. L., & Reynolds, C. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Corresponding author
- Friedman, Howard S.
- Venue
- Journal of Personality
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-01-20
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 179-216
- ISSN
- 0022-3506 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-6494
- OpenAlex
- W2028327374
- Semantic Scholar
- 4b6d5c5920e2b885694b1454720f839f51e6b8e8
- Cited by
- 295
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 17.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (AG08825, R01AG027001, AG027001, R01AG008825)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Keywords
- personality traits, healthy aging, longevity, mortality, neuroticism, extraversion, conscientiousness, subjective well-being, physical health, social competence, sex differences
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Attitude to Health, Female, Health Status, Health Surveys, Humans, Longevity, Male, Neurotic Disorders, Personality, Personality Inventory, Risk Factors, Self Concept, Sex Factors
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