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Longitudinal findings from the Normative Aging Study
— III: Personality, individual health trajectories, and mortality | | Author(s) | Carolyn M Aldwin, Avron Spiro III, Michael R Levenson |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 16, no 3, September 2001 |
| Pages | pp 450-465 |
| Keywords | Older men ; Personality ; Health [elderly] ; Death rate [statistics] ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Individual differences in physical and psychological health trajectories were examined in 1,515 men aged 28 to 80 early in the US Normative Aging Study (1961-1970) and followed up after an average 18.5 years. Men whose physical health trajectories were characterised by high, increasing symptoms were higher in hostility and anxiety, were overweight, and smoked. Those whose trajectories were characterised by low symptoms were emotionally stable, educated, non-smokers, and thin. Those with moderate anxiety levels experienced peaks in psychological symptoms at different life stages. Personality has life-long effects on health trajectories, but these effects vary across traits and health outcomes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020111232 A |
| Classmark | BC: DK: CC: S5: 3J: 7T |
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