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| How are personality traits related to preparation for future care needs in older adults? | | Author(s) | Silvia Sörensen, Paul R Duberstein, Benjamin Chapman |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 6, November 2008 |
| Pages | pp P328-P336 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Personality ; General practice ; Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors investigated associations between personality and health cognitions and behaviour related to preparation for future care among 355 primary care patients aged 65+. Path analyses examined the effects of the personality traits of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and cost-effectiveness on health cognitions about future care (avoidance, awareness), health planning behaviours (gathering information, decision making and planning), and beliefs about planning. Covariants were age, gender, education, medical burden, functional stress and depression symptom severity. Higher levels of neuroticism, openness and agreeableness were associated with greater awareness of care needs; higher openness was also associated with more gathering of information and less avoidance. Extraversion and conscientiousness were not related to future-oriented health cognition. Depression was inversely associated with the gathering of information. Age and education were related to more positive beliefs about the planning. Neither concrete planning nor decision making were related to personality variables. Health professionals should consider the impact of individual differences when addressing preparation for future care with older people,. |
| Accession Number | CPA-090605218 A |
| Classmark | DK: L5: L: IK: 7T |
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