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Personality, Well-Being, and Health*
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A lifespan perspective on personality and health uncovers new causal pathways and provides a deeper, more nuanced approach to interventions. It is unproven that happiness is a direct cause of good health or that negative emotion, worry, and depression are significant direct causes of disease. Instead, depression-related characteristics are likely often reflective of an already-deteriorating trajectory. It is also unproven that challenging work in a demanding environment usually brings long-term health risks; on the contrary, individual strivings for accomplishment and persistent dedication to one's career or community often are associated with sizeable health benefits. Overall, a substantial body of recent research reveals that conscientiousness plays a very significant role in health, with implications across the lifespan. Much more caution is warranted before policy makers offer narrow health recommendations based on short-term or correlational findings. Attention should be shifted to individual trajectories and pathways to health and well-being.
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“we have found (in our own research) that it is empirically and heuristically useful to distinguish and use at least five core health outcomes in addition to longevity”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Multiple Outcomes
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- Not checked yetcites Friedman et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Friedman & Martin 2011
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“depression-related characteristics are likely often reflective of an alreadydeteriorating trajectory”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Abstract
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“Such correlations have little to say about achieving well-being.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > OUTCOMES
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“studies of patient populations often suffer from personality selection artifacts (biases) because neurotic individuals are more likely to report symptoms (such as chest pain) and to seek medical care than nonneurotics, even when there is little or no discernable organic disease”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > OUTCOMES
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- Not checked yetcites Watson & Pennebaker 1989
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“Study of personality-an individual's relatively stable predispositions and patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting-and its relationships to well-being and health continues to be plagued by an overreliance on self-report measures.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > OUTCOMES
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“many of the questions (or items) used to assess personality are the same questions used to assess health and well-being”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > OUTCOMES
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“It is also unproven that challenging work in a demanding environment usually brings long-term health risks”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Abstract
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“a substantial body of recent research reveals that conscientiousness plays a very significant role in health, with implications across the lifespan”
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“The commonly used multipurpose Short-Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36), or the closely related RAND 36-Item Health Survey (RAND-36), can be very useful for assessing overall disease burden.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > OUTCOMES
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- Not checked yetcites Ware 2004
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“a host of characteristics and behaviors associated with the broad personality dimension of conscientiousness is predictive of health and longevity, from childhood through old age”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > INTRODUCTION
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“These different outcomes are usually correlated (and sometimes highly correlated) with each other.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Multiple Outcomes
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“Across four decades of adulthood in the Terman Life Cycle Study, neuroticism was most predictive of subjective well-being but least predictive of longevity (the most objective measure of health)”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > NEUROTICISM, DEPRESSION, WORRY, AND DISEASE
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- Not checked yetcites Friedman et al. 2010
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“Individuals who are conscientious-that is, prudent, dependable, well organized, and persistent-stay healthier, thrive, and live longer.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Rests on an assumption: The size of the conscientiousness effect on health and longevity is equal to or greater than that of many known biomedical risk factors.
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“The reasons for these associations are complex and sometimes appear paradoxical, as there are multiple simultaneous causal links to health.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > INTRODUCTION
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“excellent evidence that individual characteristics from earlier in life are reliable predictors and likely causal elements of health later in life”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > INTRODUCTION
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“Screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) biomarker is probably the most notorious case of causing significant harm to patients”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Limits of Biomarkers as Outcomes
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- Not checked yetcites Welch & Black 2010
- Not checked yetcites Welch et al. 2011
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“an individual's sense of well-being is fairly stable across time”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > HAPPINESS, SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING, AND HEALTH
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“niacin improves lipid levels, but taking niacin does not decrease mortality risk”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Limits of Biomarkers as Outcomes
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“B vitamins lower homocysteine levels, but B vitamins do not in turn lower disease risk”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Limits of Biomarkers as Outcomes
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“An analysis across 142 nations found that positive emotions predict better self-rated health around the world, with positive emotion trumping hunger, shelter, and safety in predictive value”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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- Not checked yetcites Pressman et al. 2013
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“subjective well-being and related concepts such as positive emotions are associated with better self-reported health, lower morbidity, less pain, and longevity”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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- Not checked yetcites Chida & Steptoe 2008
- Not checked yetcites Diener & Chan 2011
- Not checked yetcites Howell et al. 2007
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“this is an empirical question that has not yet been resolved”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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- Not checked yetcites Diener & Chan 2011
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“It is correlated with higher levels of agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience, and with lower levels of neuroticism, depression, and psychoticism.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Meaning and Purpose
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“in an eight-year study with over 900 individuals, cross-lagged relations between health and life satisfaction found that poor health predicted subsequent life dissatisfaction, but satisfaction did not prospectively predict changes in health”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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- Not checked yetcites Gana et al. 2013
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“subjective well-being or happiness is adaptive in some contexts but maladaptive in others”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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- Not checked yetcites Ford & Mauss 2014
- Not checked yetcites Gruber et al. 2011
- Not checked yetcites Hershfield et al. 2013
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“health is highly complex, and as it turns out, multiple causal processes are simultaneously at work in preserving health or promoting disease, although not in the ways often assumed”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > HAPPINESS, SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING, AND HEALTH
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“life satisfaction predicts health and longevity, lower suicide risk, college and job retention, and marital success”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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- Not checked yetcites Diener et al. 2013
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“Actions or interventions that improve well-being might indirectly improve a person's physical function but not act directly.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Power of Positive Emotion?
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“Optimism can function as a self-regulating mechanism, with optimistic people more likely to persevere and engage toward a goal”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Optimism
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- Not checked yetcites Carver et al. 2010
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“the mixed findings concerning neuroticism and health are so striking and jumbled as to call into doubt the viability of further simple studies of these relationships”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > NEUROTICISM, DEPRESSION, WORRY, AND DISEASE
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“strong empirical support is currently lacking for sense of meaning as a vital factor in future health”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Meaning and Purpose
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“there is little evidence that optimistic thinking will mobilize an immune system and cause tumors to shrink and increase longevity”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Optimism
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- Not checked yetcites Coyne & Tennen 2010
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“Having a sense of purpose facilitates active life engagement, goal setting, and goal pursuit”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Meaning and Purpose
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“A study of over 11,000 Germans compared expected and actual life satisfaction across an 11-year period (Lang et al. 2013), finding that many individuals grew more pessimistic about their future satisfaction with increasing age, and this pessimism was associated with lower morbidity and mortality risk.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > NEUROTICISM, DEPRESSION, WORRY, AND DISEASE
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- Not checked yetcites Lang et al. 2013
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“personality trajectories and personality interactions with life events also matter, which strongly suggests that a simple neuroticism-to-poor-health model is incomplete”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > NEUROTICISM, DEPRESSION, WORRY, AND DISEASE
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- Not checked yetcites Chapman et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Löckenhoff et al. 2009
- Not checked yetcites Mroczek & Spiro 2007
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“Although there is no doubt that many diseases are associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression, the causal pathways have never been fully elucidated.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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“A recent meta-analysis of mental health treatments (antidepressants and psychotherapies) for improving secondary event risk and depression among patients with coronary heart disease again showed mental health treatments did not reduce total mortality (absolute risk reduction = -0.00),although there was a minor influence on coronary heart disease events”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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- Not checked yetcites Rutledge et al. 2013
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“A Cochrane database review of randomized trials of psychological interventions in adults with coronary heart disease found effects on depression, supporting the success of treating psychological symptoms (Whalley et al. 2011).But there was little evidence that the interventions affected the disease process, with no reduction in the total occurrence of nonfatal infarction or death.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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- Not checked yetcites Whalley et al. 2011
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“In all of these cases, depression and/or anxiety are not only significant correlates of illness but are also significant results of illness or of challenges to homeostasis.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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- Rests on an assumption: Common symptoms in the days or weeks after a serious concussion include irritability, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbances, and depression.
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“Psychotherapy or advice to cheer up will not stop the progression of cancer or cardiovascular disease (Coyne & Tennen 2010, Thombs et al. 2013)”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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- Not checked yetcites Coyne & Tennen 2010
- Not checked yetcites Thombs et al. 2013
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“After menopause, not only the odds of heart disease but also the odds of depression for women are significantly increased (Bromberger et al. 2011).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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- Not checked yetcites Bromberger et al. 2011
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“Of course, if an intervention happens to affect the underlying causes of both health and depression for an individual, health will be improved.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Depression
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“Such disruption is a long-term process that occurs through an interaction of internal and external forces as part of an individual's longterm trajectory, and it cannot be captured in a single measurement or experiment.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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“However, when the physiological system is chronically disturbed, resources become depleted and regulatory processes are often affected (Cacioppo & Berntson 2011).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Cacioppo & Berntson 2011
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“Despite the common perception that very hard workers (workaholics) put their health at risk through nervous tension, work and health are intricately related, often in a positive way.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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- Rests on an assumption: Work can provide a sense of identity and purpose, stable social connections, and income for meeting needs for good food, safe shelter, and competent health care.
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“Unemployment is a well-established correlate of disability, illness, depression, health care utilization, and mortality risk, often in vicious cycles (Roelfs et al. 2011).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Roelfs et al. 2011
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“data from the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics showed that job loss predicted increased risk of a new health condition over the next year, with significantly higher risk if no reemployment occurred (Strully 2009).”
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- Not checked yetcites Strully 2009
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“And in England during the 2008-2010 recession, suicides and injury rates rose (Barr et al. 2012).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Barr et al. 2012
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“Outside of the formal work environment, psychological engagement and productivity are again important components of health and successful aging.”
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“Engaged workers approach their jobs with vigor, interest, and absorption and have enthusiasm both for the task at hand and for the organization as a whole (Lepine et al. 2005, Schaufeli et al. 2006).”
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“About one-third of all crimes happen to the same (repeat) victims, whereas most people face no criminal victimization at all, even after controlling for neighborhood risks (Tseloni 2000, Tseloni & Pease 2003, Tseloni et al. 2004).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Tseloni 2000
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- Not checked yetcites Tseloni et al. 2004
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“In global areas with high concentrations of centenarians (Buettner 2012), most long-lived individuals have remained physically and socially active, embracing rather than avoiding challenge.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Challenge and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Buettner 2012
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“has revealed that conscientiousness is a very strong and reliable lifelong predictor of healthy pathways and of health and longevity (Friedman et al. 2013, Goodwin & Friedman 2006, Shanahan et al. 2013).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Not checked yetcites Friedman et al. 2013
- Not checked yetcites Goodwin & Friedman 2006
- Not checked yetcites Shanahan et al. 2013
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“As is discussed below, it is not the emotional lability (neuroticism) itself that is crucial, but rather the impulsivity (unconscientiousness).”
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“Third and relatedly, conscientious individuals are more likely to have more successful, meaningful careers, better educations, and higher incomes, all of which are known to be relevant to health, well-being, and longer life (Hampson et al. 2007, Ozer & Benet-Martinez 2006, Poropat 2009, Roberts et al. 2003).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Not checked yetcites Hampson et al. 2007
- Not checked yetcites Ozer & Benet-Martinez 2006
- Not checked yetcites Poropat 2009
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“First, conscientious individuals engage in a variety of important healthier behaviors-for example, they smoke less, eat healthier foods, and wear seat belts (Bogg & Roberts 2004, Lodi-Smith et al. 2010, Sutin et al. 2011).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Not checked yetcites Bogg & Roberts 2004
- Not checked yetcites Lodi-Smith et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Sutin et al. 2011
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“and in adulthood, conscientious people are more likely to connect with other conscientious people-personally, socially, and at work-and to place themselves in healthier social and physical environments (Hampson 2012).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Not checked yetcites Hampson 2012
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“Serotonin levels in the central nervous system are known to have a genetic basis, change with new circumstances, affect personality (including conscientiousness), and work to regulate core bodily functions (including sleep) necessary for good health (Carver et al. 2011, Caspi et al. 2010, Cicchetti et al. 2012; see also M õttus et al. 2013 regarding inflammation).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Not checked yetcites Carver et al. 2011
- Not checked yetcites Caspi et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Cicchetti et al. 2012
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“Conscientious individuals are more likely to achieve a good education (Poropat 2009), which in turn is helpful in creating more prudent, better-organized, and forward-thinking adults (Vaillant 2012).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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- Not checked yetcites Poropat 2009
- Not checked yetcites Vaillant 2012
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“That is, personality traits, sense of well-being, and many diseases have some genetic or perinatal basis, thus leading to later associations between personality and health that are caused in part by underlying biosocial third variables.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > Early Life Influences
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“The individual effect of each behavior is tiny (and hard to document), but taken together and compounded over decades, a substantial effect may emerge.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, MATURITY, AND LONGEVITY
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“A fuller understanding and more comprehensive causal models of personality, health, and well-being would make these sorts of artifacts less likely.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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“Although the evidence for widely effective interventions is not yet available, more comprehensive models point toward core patterns that may indeed emerge as efficacious policies in promoting a well-organized, healthy, productive, long life.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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“Fuller models of personality and health help clarify causality and offer likely points for successful intervention.”
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“We have argued that a more complete lifespan perspective (with expanded causal models) reveals that certain common assumptions about health and well-being are untenable and some common interventions are unjustified.”
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“Analogously, a misinterpretation of the correlations of depression with disease can result in the targeting of the wrong behavioral patterns for intervention.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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“Further, the misunderstanding of the role of worrying may lead to minimization of sober, thoughtful, conscientious life patterns now known to be health protective.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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“For example, the unconscientious boys in the Terman sample-even though very bright-were more likely to grow up to achieve less education, have unstable marriages, drink and smoke more, and be unsuccessful at work, all of which were relevant to dying at younger ages.”
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“Fortunately, with the increasing number of long-term data sets, more rigorous information is now emerging (Friedman et al. 2013).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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- Not checked yetcites Friedman et al. 2013
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“Some elements of the pursuit of happiness may very well result in increased health, but oversimplification of the strong correlations between subjective well-being and physical health can lead to the”
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“Individuals higher on positive emotions, agreeableness, and conscientiousness are much more likely to stay in ongoing studies, thus creating differential attrition and distorting findings (Czajkowski et al. 2009, Friedman 2011b).”
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- Not checked yetcites Friedman 2011b
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“And, the degree and quality of such relations can be changed.”
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“Further, such approaches often do not consider long-term lifespan trajectories and the understanding of context.”
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“and a fuller understanding of the causal pathways and how they can be altered holds the promise of significant value to individuals and to society.”
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“Individual differences earlier in life are reliable predictors and likely causes of well-being and health status later in life”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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“The problem is that many other approaches to treating depression and subjective well-being likely are not very relevant to health.”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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“Although physical activity levels (not formal exercise per se) are somewhat stable over time, they too can be modified, and increased activity usually produces beneficial effects (Bouchard et al. 2012, Mutrie & Faulkner 2004, Pedersen & Saltin 2006).”
§ Personality, Well-Being, and Health * > CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERVENTIONS
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Biomarkers naturally fluctuate as the body maintains or reestablishes homeostasis.
“especially since biomarkers naturally fluctuate as the body maintains or reestablishes homeostasis”
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Many medical interventions decrease quality of life for many while improving it for only a few even though short-term biomarkers look better.
“In fact, many medical interventions decrease quality of life for many while improving it for only a few, even though short-term biomarkers look better.”
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The FDA requires any new class of drug to have studies with hard disease or mortality outcomes.
“The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now requires that any new class of drug must have studies with hard disease or mortality outcomes”
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Hostility is relevant to injury and to a host of unhealthy behaviors.
“which is known to be relevant to injury (suicide, homicide, accidents) and to a host of unhealthy behaviors”
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Common symptoms in the days or weeks after a serious concussion include irritability, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbances, and depression.
“For example, common symptoms in the days or weeks following a serious concussion (traumatic brain injury) are irritability, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbances, and depression.”
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These symptoms are also core symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
“These are also core symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.”
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There are no well-controlled studies showing that interventions to improve the chronic mood of neurotics produce direct physiological changes and consequent improvements in cancer progression or death risk.
“There are no well-controlled studies showing that interventions to improve the chronic mood of neurotics result in direct physiological changes and consequent improvements in progression of cancer or risk of death.”
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Work can provide a sense of identity and purpose, stable social connections, and income for meeting needs for good food, safe shelter, and competent health care.
“Work can provide a sense of identity and purpose, stable social connections with others, and of course a source of income for meeting needs for good food, safe shelter, and competent health care.”
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Absence from work is a good predictor of subsequent long-term disability and unemployment.
“absence from work is a good predictor of subsequent long-term disability and unemployment.”
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Personality influences the events experienced, the elicitation of responses by others, cognitive interpretations of challenges, emotional reactions, coping responses, and resulting actions.
“Personality influences the events that are experienced (i.e., situation selection), the elicitation (or provocation) of responses by others, cognitive interpretations of challenges, emotional reactions to experiences, coping responses, and resulting actions.”
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The size of the conscientiousness effect on health and longevity is equal to or greater than that of many known biomedical risk factors.
“The size of this effect is equal to or greater than that of many known biomedical risk factors.”
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“Overall, Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) is associated with several comorbid features, including prolonged mental and physical dysfunction, increased healthcare spending, worse clinical outcomes, and a higher risk of suicide [4,6,7,8,9].”
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“Conscientiousness (a tendency toward self-discipline, reliability, and orderliness) and neuroticism (proneness to negative emotionality) in particular consistently predict cardiovascular and all-cause mortality, among other outcomes (8,10-12).”
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Putra, A. S. B., Kusumawati, E. D., & Kartikasari, D. (2023) · International Journal of Multidisciplinary Approach Research and Science · doi:10.59653/ijmars.v2i01.433 · Cited by 46
“In essence, the interplay between work well-being, physical health, work productivity, and interpersonal relationships is integral to the overall workplace dynamic (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundKelly, C. A., Trumpff, C., Acosta, C., Assuras, S., Baker, J., Basarrate, S., Behnke, A., Bo, K., Bobba‐Alves, N., Champagne, F. A., et al. (2024) · Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism · doi:10.1016/j.tem.2024.08.006 · Cited by 35
Widespread associations between trait conscientiousness and thickness of brain cortical regions
Lewis, G. J., Dickie, D. A., Cox, S. R., Karama, S., Evans, A. C., Starr, J. M., Bastin, M. E., Wardlaw, J. M., & Deary, I. J. (2018) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.033 · Cited by 33
“Both are related to personality traits (Allen and Laborde, 2017; Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundZeng, G., & Kern, M. L. (2019) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01457 · Cited by 42
“While definitions and models of positive psychological functioning vary, most models include multiple domains and indicators (Forgeard et al., 2011; Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundSelf-citationFive-factor model personality traits and grip strength: Meta-analysis of seven studies
Stéphan, Y., Sutin, A. R., Canada, B., Deshayes, M., Kekäläinen, T., & Terracciano, A. (2022) · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110961 · Cited by 34
Maple, H., Chilcot, J., Lee, V., Simmonds, S., Weinman, J. A., & Mamode, N. (2014) · Brain Behavior and Immunity · doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2014.06.012 · Cited by 33
Ha, D., & Ha, J. C. (2017) · Behavioural Processes · doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2017.03.012 · Cited by 33
Ben‐Eliyahu, A., & Zeidner, M. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.041 · Cited by 33
Pletzer, J. L., Thielmann, I., & Zettler, I. (2023) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1177/08902070231174574 · Cited by 39
“For example, there were no studies that actually assessed longevity or mortality, which are generally assumed to be the best markers of health (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundSon, J. S., & Chen, C.-C. B. (2018) · Journal of Leisure Research · doi:10.1080/00222216.2018.1534074 · Cited by 37
“Personality, general life experiences, and work role may also contribute to an understanding of work–leisure balance (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundKhayeri, F., Rabiei, L., Shamsalinia, A., & Masoudi, R. (2016) · Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice · doi:10.1016/j.ctcp.2016.09.009 · Cited by 30
“The people who are happy feel more secure, take decision more easily, have a more cooperative spirit, and feel more satisfied compared to the people with whom they are living (11, 12).”
BackgroundEdmonds, G. W., Hampson, S. E., Côté, H. C. F., Hill, P. L., & Klest, B. (2016) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1002/per.2051 · Cited by 30
“In the intervening years, the association between conscientiousness and mortality has been replicated many times over, and is now well established (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundThe Role of the Five–factor Personality Traits in General Self–rated Health
Kööts‐Ausmees, L., Schmidt, M., Esko, T., Metspalu, A., Allïk, J., & Realo, A. (2016) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1002/per.2058 · Cited by 34
“Namely, in addition to being subjective and contextual self-evaluations, both SRH and SWB have been shown to predict longevity and morbidity beyond objectively measured physical health (Chida & Steptoe, 2008; DeSalvo et al., 2006; Friedman & Kern, 2014; Siahpush, Spittal, & Singh, 2008).”
BackgroundInfluentialThe Five Factor Model of Personality and Consequential Outcomes in Childhood and Adolescence
Fruyt, F. D., Clercq, B. J. D., & Bolle, M. D. (2016) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199352487.013.6 · Cited by 29
Nolan, A., McCrory, C., & Moore, P. (2019) · Preventive Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.12.029 · Cited by 30
Kitayama, S., & Park, J. (2020) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · doi:10.1177/0146167220929824 · Cited by 31
“A growing body of work shows that conscientiousness is a protective factor of health (Bogg & Roberts, 2004; Friedman & Kern, 2014; Israel et al., 2014).”
BackgroundLai, H., Kong, X., Zhao, Y., Pan, N., Zhang, X., He, M., Wang, S., & Gong, Q. (2022) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119009 · Cited by 28
Lam, S. U., Riordan, K. M., Simonsson, O., Davidson, R. J., & Goldberg, S. B. (2023) · Mindfulness · doi:10.1007/s12671-022-02061-9 · Cited by 34
“Lower conscientiousness also predicts poorer sleep hygiene (Duggan et al., 2014) and greater emergency department use (Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
DeYoung, C. G., & Blain, S. D. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.026 · Cited by 34
Kay, A. A., & Young, T. (2021) · Academy of Management Learning and Education · doi:10.5465/amle.2020.0316 · Cited by 31
Luo, J., Zhang, B., Estabrook, R., Graham, E. K., Driver, C., Schalet, B. D., Turiano, N. A., Spiro, A., & Mroczek, D. K. (2022) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/pspp0000399 · Cited by 31
“Consistent with previous findings (Friedman & Kern, 2014; Murray & Booth, 2015; Smith, 2006), at the betweenperson level, high conscientiousness was associated with high self-rated health and low general disease level.”
ResultPersonality and fatigue: meta-analysis of seven prospective studies
Stephan, Y., Sutin, A., Luchetti, M., Canada, B., & Terracciano, A. (2022) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-022-12707-2 · Cited by 27
Chilver, M. R., Champaigne-Klassen, E., Schofield, P. R., Williams, L. M., & Gatt, J. M. (2023) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32588-3 · Cited by 32
Rasmussen, H. N., England, E. A., & Cole, B. P. (2022) · Current Opinion in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101549 · Cited by 28
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Westphaln, K. K., Lee, E. Y., Fry-Bowers, E. K., Kleinman, L. C., & Ronis, S. D. (2022) · Journal of Pediatric Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2022.05.014 · Cited by 26
Farber, R. S., Kern, M. L., & Brusilovsky, E. (2015) · Rehabilitation Psychology · doi:10.1037/rep0000023 · Cited by 20
Self-citationThe Meanings Ascribed to Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Flourishing
Bakracheva, M. (2020) · Psychology · doi:10.4236/psych.2020.111007 · Cited by 29
“There are numerous indicators and multidimensional predictors and components necessary to describe the complexity of optimal functioning as a whole (Baltes & Baltes, 1990; Forgeard et al., 2011; Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundNystrand, B. T., Olsen, S. O., & Tudoran, A. A. (2020) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2020.104979 · Cited by 26
Hudson, N. W., Lucas, R. E., & Donnellan, M. B. (2019) · Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin · doi:10.1177/0146167219838547 · Cited by 25
“Notably, although the notion that well-being impacts health enjoys widespread popular appeal (e.g., positive thinking purportedly staves off illnesses; Friedman & Kern, 2014), the empirical evidence is inconclusive.”
BackgroundInfluentialPersonality and Motoric Cognitive Risk Syndrome
Stéphan, Y., Sutin, A. R., Canada, B., & Terracciano, A. (2019) · Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · doi:10.1111/jgs.16282 · Cited by 24
Personality traits relate to chronotype at both the phenotypic and genetic level
Lenneis, A., Vainik, U., Teder‐Laving, M., Ausmees, L., Lemola, S., Allïk, J., & Realo, A. (2021) · Journal of Personality · doi:10.1111/jopy.12645 · Cited by 31
Monni, A., Collison, K. L., Hill, K. E., Oumeziane, B. A., & Foti, D. (2022) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/psyp.14109 · Cited by 31
A Double Test on the Importance of Spirituality, the “Forgotten Factor”, in Successful Aging
Tomás, J. M., Sancho, P., Galiana, L., & Oliver, A. (2015) · Social Indicators Research · doi:10.1007/s11205-015-1014-6 · Cited by 24
Warr, P. B. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118993811.ch4 · Cited by 31
The role of purpose in the stress process: A homeostatic account
Burrow, A. L., Hill, P. L., Stanley, M., & Sumner, R. (2023) · Journal of Research in Personality · doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104444 · Cited by 28
Kesebonye, W. M., & Amone‐P’Olak, K. (2020) · South African Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1177/0081246320962718 · Cited by 23
“…a critically important issue in child-rearing, parental involvement alone may not capture other nuances in emotional regulation and well-being in young adults, such as relationship difficulties, peer acceptance, or personality (Friedman & Kern, 2014; Mbulayi & Kang’ethe, 2020; Oberle et al., 2010).”
BackgroundFan, L., Chatterjee, S., & Kim, J. (2021) · Journal of Family and Economic Issues · doi:10.1007/s10834-021-09764-6 · Cited by 30
Reisenzein, R., Hildebrandt, A., & Weber, H. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.009 · Cited by 26
Cheng, H., & Furnham, A. F. (2016) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145552 · Cited by 23
“They are Neuroticism which assesses emotional sensitivity, instability, and proneness to anxiety and depression; Extraversion which assesses sociability, gregariousness, positive affect and excitement seeking; Openness-to-Experience which assesses curiosity, imaginativeness, and a preference for new experiences; Agree…”
BackgroundJia, X., Huang, Y., Yu, W., Ming, W., Qi, F., & Wu, Y. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19063576 · Cited by 22
“Individuals with higher neuroticism are more sensitive to stressors [33], which may amplify and prolong sleeping difficulties at the same time.”
BackgroundThe role of neuroticism and conscientious facets in academic motivation
Apostolov, N., & Geldenhuys, M. (2022) · Brain and Behavior · doi:10.1002/brb3.2673 · Cited by 22
I am. Therefore, I will? Predicting customers' willingness to co-create using five-factor theory
Vermehren, P. D., Burmeister–Lamp, K., & Heidenreich, S. (2022) · Journal of service management · doi:10.1108/josm-03-2021-0088 · Cited by 22
One of few or one of many: Social identification and psychological well‐being among minority youth
Bratt, C. (2015) · British Journal of Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjso.12105 · Cited by 22
Tabernero, C., Gutiérrez‐Domingo, T., Vecchione, M., Cuadrado, E., Castillo‐Mayén, R., Rubio, S., Arenas, A., Delgado‐Lista, J., Jiménez-Pérez, P., & Luque, B. (2019) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223862 · Cited by 22
“Conscientious people are healthier, as found in a study on the relationships between personality, wellbeing and health [8].”
BackgroundMilad, E., & Bogg, T. (2020) · Annals of Behavioral Medicine · doi:10.1093/abm/kaaa024 · Cited by 22
“), is not isomorphic with disease diagnosis, progression, or death [67].”
BackgroundPersonality and Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis in Older Men and Women
Montoliu, T., Hidalgo, V., & Salvador, A. (2020) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00983 · Cited by 23
“They also tend to have healthier friendships, more stable marriages, a better education, more meaningful careers, and higher incomes (see review: Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundInfluentialLiu, T., Liu, Z., Zhang, L., & Mu, S. (2021) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.111223 · Cited by 24
“This finding can be explained by the overlap of DM with emotional regulation, which accounts for the relationship between conscientiousness and mental health-related issues (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundHallmarks of primary headache: part 3 – cluster headache
Coppola, G., Arruda, M. A., Ashina, M., Barloese, M. C. J., Belin, A. C., Bottiroli, S., Chowdhury, D., Icco, R. D., Lorenzo, C. D., Stefano, G. D., et al. (2025) · The Journal of Headache and Pain · doi:10.1186/s10194-025-02145-6 · Cited by 20
Do we still need psychological self-report questionnaires in the age of the Internet of Things?
Montag, C., Dagum, P., Hall, B. J., & Elhai, J. D. (2022) · Discover Psychology · doi:10.1007/s44202-021-00012-4 · Cited by 20
Graßmann, C., & Schermuly, C. C. (2017) · Coaching An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice · doi:10.1080/17521882.2017.1381755 · Cited by 20
“High neuroticism presents a risk factor for impaired health and well-being (Friedman & Kern, 2014; Lahey, 2009) and is related to negative affectivity, emotional instability and inability to cope with challenging situations (McCrae & Costa, 2006).”
BackgroundSound Body, Sound Mind? The Interrelation between Health Change and Personality Change in Old Age
Kornadt, A. E., Hagemeyer, B., Neyer, F. J., & Kandler, C. (2017) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1002/per.2135 · Cited by 22
“The association between changes in health and changes in conscientiousness is in line with previous research that has connected conscientiousness with a variety of health variables throughout life (e.g. Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
ResultMarrero, R. J., Abella, M. C., & Hernandez-Cabrera, J. A. (2019) · Journal of Happiness Studies · doi:10.1007/s10902-019-00121-x · Cited by 20
Measuring Whole-School Well-being in Students and Staff
Kern, M. L., Adler, A., Waters, L. E., & White, M. A. (2015) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9667-5_4 · Cited by 23
Self-citationPersonality-affected Emotion Generation in Dialog Systems
Wen, Z., Cao, J., Shen, J., Yang, R., Liu, S., & Sun, M. (2024) · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · doi:10.1145/3655616 · Cited by 22
“The personality trait 𝑃 of the dialog system is also given.”
BackgroundMethodPositive welfare: What does it add to the debate over pig welfare?
Lawrence, A. B., Newberry, R. C., & Špinka, M. (2023) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-85676-8.00009-2 · Cited by 20
Stéphan, Y., Sutin, A. R., Caille, P., & Terracciano, A. (2019) · Psychosomatic Medicine · doi:10.1097/psy.0000000000000734 · Cited by 19
“Personality traits have been implicated in a number of healthrelated outcomes (14).”
BackgroundWhy are you (un)conscientious? The dynamic interplay of goals, states, and traits in everyday life
Di Sarno, M., Costantini, G., Richetin, J., Preti, E., & Perugini, M. (2023) · Journal of Personality · doi:10.1111/jopy.12701 · Cited by 18
What Mechanisms Explain the Links Between Personality and Health? ∗
Wiebe, D. J., Song, A. V., & Loyola, M. D. R. (2018) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-805300-3.00012-8 · Cited by 19
Childhood sleep duration and lifelong mortality risk.
Duggan, K. A., Reynolds, C. A., Kern, M. L., & Friedman, H. S. (2014) · Health Psychology · doi:10.1037/hea0000078 · Cited by 18
Self-citationEmotional stability, conscientiousness, and self-reported hypertension in adulthood
Cheng, H., Montgomery, S., Treglown, L., & Furnham, A. F. (2016) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.02.034 · Cited by 17
“There is a long-standing literature on personality correlates of health and illness, as well as longevity (Chapman, Roberts, & Duberstein, 2011; Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundMethodThe conscientiousness-health link in depression: Results from a path analysis
Kummer, S., Dalkner, N., Schwerdtfeger, A. R., Hamm, C., Schwalsberger, K., Reininghaus, B., Krammer, G., & Reininghaus, E. Z. (2021) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2021.09.017 · Cited by 20
Personality differences in the occurrence and affective correlates of daily positive events
Klaiber, P., Wen, J., Ong, A. D., Almeida, D. M., & Sin, N. L. (2021) · Journal of Personality · doi:10.1111/jopy.12676 · Cited by 17
“Stress is a potential pathway through which personality traits may contribute to health and well-being (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundStrengthening Conscientiousness by Means of Interventions: A Systematic Review
Turner, M., & Hodis, F. A. (2025) · Educational Psychology Review · doi:10.1007/s10648-025-10016-4 · Cited by 19
“The benefits of being conscientious are not limited to educational settings; for example, conscientious people also experience better health (Bogg & Roberts, 2004; Kern & Friedman, 2008) and well-being (Anglim et al., 2020; Friedman & Kern, 2014; Howell et al., 2017).”
Personality and risk of adult asthma in a prospective cohort study
Loerbroks, A., Li, J., Bosch, J. A., Herr, R. M., & Angerer, P. (2015) · Journal of Psychosomatic Research · doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2015.04.002 · Cited by 16
“In particular, it has been hypothesized that individuals with high levels of conscientiousness are more likely to choose healthier social and physical environments [1] and that they may bemore likely to prepare for predictable stressors [6].”
BackgroundInfluentialCheng, H., Montgomery, S., Green, A., & Furnham, A. F. (2019) · Journal of Public Health · doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdz009 · Cited by 16
Hao, R., Dong, H., Zhang, R., Li, P., Zhang, P., Zhang, M., & Hu, J. (2019) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02219 · Cited by 16
“The factors influencing GWB can be divided into internal factors and external factors (Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundRobinson, M. D., & Sedikides, C. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.031 · Cited by 18
The Five-Factor Model of Personality: Consensus and Controversy
McCrae, R. R. (2020) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781108264822.013 · Cited by 20
12-Year Associations of Health with Personality in the Second Half of Life
Wettstein, M., Tauber, B., Wahl, H., & Frankenberg, C. (2017) · GeroPsych · doi:10.1024/1662-9647/a000162 · Cited by 16
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior During COVID-19: Trajectory and Moderation by Personality
Stéphan, Y., Terracciano, A., Luchetti, M., Aschwanden, D., Lee, J. H., Sesker, A. A., Strickhouser, J. E., & Sutin, A. R. (2020) · Social Psychological and Personality Science · doi:10.1177/1948550620962945 · Cited by 15
“Health-related behaviors are crucial pathways in existing models on personality and health (Friedman & Kern, 2014; Turiano et al., 2015).”
BackgroundMethodEmotional and Behavioral Responses to COVID-19
Bacon, A. M., Krupıć, D., Çakı, N., & Corr, P. J. (2021) · European Psychologist · doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000461 · Cited by 19
“This may be attributable to the anxiety-provoked vigilance often linked to high neuroticism (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundSchwarzbold, M. L., Haas, G. M., Barni, R. S., Biava, P., Momo, A. C., Dias, T. M., Ayodele, T. A., Díaz, A. P., & Vicente, F. (2019) · Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1590/1516-4446-2018-0318 · Cited by 17
Campoamor-Olegario, L. A., Camitan, D. S., & Guinto, M. L. M. (2025) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1490437 · Cited by 30
“Items exhibiting significant factor loadings and demonstrating satisfactory reliability were retained in the final measure, including the physical health dimension that assesses an individual’s capacity to undertake various daily activities effectively (Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
Israel, A., Brandt, N. D., Grund, S., Köller, O., Lüdtke, O., & Wagner, J. (2021) · European Journal of Personality · doi:10.1177/08902070211005636 · Cited by 16
“In adulthood, personality traits have been found to be associated with all three adjustment variables (i.e. general self-esteem, well-being, and health; Anglim et al., 2020; Friedman & Kern, 2014; Robins et al., 2001), but research on adolescents is scarce.”
BackgroundMammadov, S. (2022) · High Ability Studies · doi:10.1080/13598139.2022.2068509 · Cited by 15
“Personality appears to be among decisive factors contributing to individual differences in life outcomes, including subjective well-being (Friedman & Kern, 2014; McAbee & Oswald, 2013).”
BackgroundThe associations between personality traits and mental health in people with and without asthma
Kang, W. (2023) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2023.04.022 · Cited by 14
Song, X., Guo, S., & Gao, Y. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1323117 · Cited by 18
Lifestyle and wellbeing: Exploring behavioral and demographic covariates in a large US sample
Eichstaedt, J. C., Yaden, D. B., Ribeiro, F., Adler, A., & Kern, M. L. (2020) · International Journal of Wellbeing · doi:10.5502/ijw.v10i4.831 · Cited by 16
Self-citationThe role of personality and self-efficacy in music students’ health-promoting behaviours
Cohen, S., & Panebianco, C. (2020) · Musicae Scientiae · doi:10.1177/1029864920966771 · Cited by 14
“…has been found to be a significant positive predictor of a diverse range of health-promoting behaviours in a variety of different populations (Friedman & Kern, 2014; Lodi-Smith et al., 2010; Strickhouser et al., 2017), including physical and mental health and wellbeing (Ebstrup et al., 2011;…”
BackgroundSinvani, R.-T., Fogel‐Grinvald, H., Afek, A., Ben-Avraham, R., Davidov, A., Cohen, N., Yehuda, A. B., Nahum, M., & Gilboa, Y. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychiatry · doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2021.672397 · Cited by 17
“The term QoL is often used interchangeably with the term wellbeing, which reflects more stable personality traits (85).”
MethodLife Satisfaction Among Ethnic Minorities in Europe
Kööts‐Ausmees, L., & Realo, A. (2016) · Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology · doi:10.1177/0022022116628671 · Cited by 16
“Numerous studies have shown that SWB and its components are associated with better selfreported health (see Friedman & Kern, 2014, for a review), and SWB even contributes to longevity (Diener & Chan, 2011).”
BackgroundLiao, K. Y.-H., Yeung, N. C. Y., Wong, C. C. Y., Warmoth, K., & Lü, Q. (2016) · Supportive Care in Cancer · doi:10.1007/s00520-016-3504-8 · Cited by 15
Wettstein, M., Tauber, B., & Wahl, H. (2018) · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · doi:10.1093/geronb/gby155 · Cited by 14
Memory and Personality Development in Adulthood: Evidence From Four Longitudinal Studies
Stéphan, Y., Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., & Terracciano, A. (2020) · The Journals of Gerontology Series B · doi:10.1093/geronb/gbaa086 · Cited by 14
“Theoretical models on personality and health focus mostly on the predictive role of personality for health and cognitive outcomes (Friedman and Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundLongitudinal profiles of mental well-being as correlates of successful aging in middle age
Kokko, K., & Feldt, T. (2017) · International Journal of Behavioral Development · doi:10.1177/0165025417739177 · Cited by 16
Tang, Y., & Tang, R. (2020) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-818266-6.00003-4 · Cited by 16
Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of The PERMA-Profiler
Alves, M. A., Palmer, S., & Gouveia, M. J. (2023) · Trends in Psychology · doi:10.1007/s43076-023-00261-3 · Cited by 13
“The diversity of instruments that attempt to measure well-being confirms the necessity of increasingly complex models that integrate different perspectives harmoniously (Friedman & Kern, 2014; Huppert & So, 2013).”
Realo, A., Teras, A., Kööts-Ausmees, L., Esko, T., Metspalu, A., & Allik, J. (2015) · Scandinavian Journal of Psychology · doi:10.1111/sjop.12248 · Cited by 12
Harrison, F., & Craddock, A. (2016) · Psychology, Health & Medicine · doi:10.1080/13548506.2015.1062524 · Cited by 11
“Selfreported personality and health variables can be confounded and/or susceptible to socially desirable responding (Friedman & Kern, 2014), which may have influenced current findings despite statistical control for these effects.”
BackgroundMartin, M. A., Lippert, A. M., Chandler, K. D., & Lemmon, M. (2018) · SSM - Population Health · doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.03.003 · Cited by 17
“Regarding the second, conscientiousness is a personality trait defined as a person’s prudence, dependability, organizational skills, and persistence (Friedman & Kern, 2014) that is relatively stable in adulthood (Cobb-Clark & Schurer, 2012).”
BackgroundKim, J. J., Gerrish, R., Gilbert, P., & Kirby, J. N. (2020) · Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice · doi:10.1111/papt.12270 · Cited by 18
A study of the association between identity, life engagement and well-being among young Asian adults
Berezina, E. B., Gill, C. M. H. D., & Бовина, И. Б. (2020) · Social Identities · doi:10.1080/13504630.2020.1783225 · Cited by 15
“…in different groups, so it follows that psychological well-being is in part dependent upon individuals’ sense of social identity (e.g. Bratt, 2015; Friedman & Kern, 2014: Greenaway et al., 2015; Outten & Schmitt, 2015) which in turn is an aspect of a broader identity construct that combines…”
BackgroundAbbasi, M., Ghadampour, E., Hojati, M., & Senobar, A. (2020) · Anales de Psicología · doi:10.6018/analesps.402111 · Cited by 13
“As a positive personality trait, optimism refers to a tendency toward positive expectations for the future and confidence in one's ability to cope with challenges (Friedman & Kern, 2014).”
BackgroundResultBoth sides of the story: Narratives of romantic infidelity
Wilkinson, D. E., & Dunlop, W. L. (2020) · Personal Relationships · doi:10.1111/pere.12355 · Cited by 16
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Cognitive Development and the Life Course: Growth, Stability and Decline
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“Moreover, the relations between personality traits and BMI seem to differ between women and men (Faith et al., 2001; Friedman & Brownell, 1995).”
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“While trust (e.g. Dieperink, Leskela, Thuras, & Engdahl, 2001; Love & Murdock, 2004), comfort (Magnus, Diener, Fujita, & Pavot, 1993; Friedman & Kern, 2014; Friborg et al., 2005) and tolerance (Agbakwuru & Stella, 2012) have been found to be related to higher resilience or better psychological…”
BackgroundValidity evidence of the Social and Emotional Nationwide Assessment (SENNA 1.0) Inventory
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“…traditional performance evaluations at schools, but have been lauded for their role in enhancing children’s and youth’s success in school and life (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011; Friedman & Kern, 2014; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2015).”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Friedman, H. S., & Kern, M. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2014-01-03
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 719-742
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- OpenAlex
- W2134111694
- Cited by
- 530
- References
- 188
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 36 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 49 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 41 · 2020: 91 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 34 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 37 · 2014: 14
- FWCI
- 6.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
- Keywords
- personality, well-being, health, lifespan development, conscientiousness, happiness, depression, negative emotions, worry, job demands, career dedication, health trajectories, causal pathways, health interventions
- MeSH terms
- Emotions, Health Status, Humans, Mental Health, Personal Satisfaction, Personality, Workplace
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