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| Personality and mortality in old age | | Author(s) | Robert S Wilson, Carlos F Mendes de Leon, Julia L Bienias |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 59B, no 3, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp P110-P116 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Roman Catholicism ; Ministers of religion ; Personality ; Death rate [statistics] ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The relationship of personality to mortality was examined in 883 older Catholic clergy members (69% women) from the US Religious Orders Study. At baseline, they completed the NEO Five Factor Inventory, which assesses the five principle dimensions of personality. They were followed for a mean of 5.1 years, during which 182 deaths occurred. Risk of death was nearly doubled to those with 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 extroversion were mixed, and neither agreeableness nor openness was strongly related to mortality. The results suggest that personality is associated with mortality in old age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041103204 A |
| Classmark | TSA: XR: DK: S5: 48: 3J: 7T |
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