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Personality and perceived health in older adults
— the Five Factor Model in primary care | | Author(s) | Benjamin P Chapman, Paul R Duberstein, Silvia Sörensen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp P362-P365 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Personality ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; General practice ; Usage [services] ; Depression ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Responses to particular questions tapping perceived health are associated with morbidity, mortality and health service use, yet there has been little research on their personality correlates. The association is examined between Five Factor Model personality traits and responses to four items extracted from the Medical Outcomes Short Form 36 (SF-36) in 266 primary care patients aged 65+. Multivariate analysis controlling for age, gender, depressive symptoms and physical disease burden showed that having a higher Neuroticism score was associated with worse perceived health in response to all items except "I am as healthy as anyone I know". Having a lower Extroversion score was associated with worse perceived health in response to the item " I expect my health to get worse". Implications for understanding personality influences on mortality, morbidity and health service usage are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070216204 A |
| Classmark | DK: CC: 4C: L5: QLD: ENR: 49 : 7T |
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