Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Chronic Conditions? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis

Weston, Sara J.; Graham, Eileen K; Turiano, Nicholas A.; Aschwanden, Damaris; Booth, Tom; Harrison, Fleur; James, Bryan D.; Lewis, Nathan A; Makkar, Steven R.; Mueller, Swantje; Wisniewski, Kristi M.; Yoneda, Tomiko; Zhaoyang, Ruixue; Spiro, Avron; Drewelies, Johanna; Wagner, Gert G.; Steinhagen‐Thiessen, Elisabeth; Demuth, Ilja; Willis, Sherry L.; Schaie, K. Warner; Sliwinski, Martin J.; Lipton, Richard A.; Katz, Mindy J.; Deary, Ian J.; Zelinski, Elizabeth M.; Bennett, David A.; Sachdev, Perminder S.; Brodaty, Henry; Trollor, Julian N.; Ames, David; Wright, Margaret J.; Gerstorf, Denis; Allemand, Mathias; Muñiz‐Terrera, Graciela; Piccinin, Andrea M.; Mroczek, Daniel K.

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“…Personality traits have received increasing attention as a potential source of individual differences in health development (Weston et al, 2020). Personality is defined as relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances (Roberts, 2009).…”

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Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.

Luo¹,

Zhang

Estabrook

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Personality traits and physical health both change over the life span. Theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that these changes are related. The current study investigated the dynamic relations between personality traits and physical health at both the between-person and the within-person levels. Data were drawn from three longitudinal studies: the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study (NAS; N = 1,734), the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS; N = 13,559), and the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging (SATSA, N = 2,209). Using random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) and the continuous time (CT) models, after controlling the between-person variance, generally, evidence was found for bidirectional associations between changes in neuroticism and extraversion and changes in self-rated health and general disease level. Bidirectional associations between changes in neuroticism and change in cardiovascular diseases and central nervous system diseases were observed only when time was modeled as continuous. We also found within-person associations between changes in neuroticism and extraversion and changes in performance-based ratings of motor functioning impairment. According to the current findings, the dynamic within-person relations between personality traits and health outcomes were largely in the direction consistent with their between-person connections, although the within-person relationships were substantially smaller in strength when compared their between-person counterparts. Findings from the current study highlight the importance of distinguishing between-person and within-person effects when examining the longitudinal relationship between personality traits and health.

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Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.

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Zhang

Estabrook

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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Other findings suggested that high neuroticism and low conscientiousness are associated with greater health‐risk behaviors (Vollrath & Torgersen, 2002). Such assertions regarding healthy neuroticism are still debatable, and previous studies have reported inconsistent mixed results (Weston, Graham, Turiano et al ., 2020). The present study was designed to explore this phenomenon among adolescents to see whether the nature of relationship between neuroticism and health‐risk behaviors differs for different levels of conscientiousness in them.…”

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Conscientiousness moderates the relationship between neuroticism and health‐risk behaviors among adolescents

Singh

2022

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Health‐Risk‐Behaviors (HRBs) are considered significant antecedent conditions of adolescents' poor health and mortality. Prevention of any adverse health outcome requires an in‐depth understanding of the risk and protective factors associated with its development and maintenance. Among other potential causal pathways, the “neuroticism‐ HRBs‐adverse health” link has been supported in previous studies. Trait neuroticism has been associated with poor health and HRBs, but several moderators were also observed, which might transform neuroticism into a desirable phenomenon, that is, healthy neuroticism, that leads to better health. Conscientiousness is one such potential moderator; however, the moderating effect of conscientiousness in the neuroticism‐HRBs link has not been explored extensively among adolescents, especially in India; therefore, no conclusive evidence is available. Thus, the present study was planned to explore the moderating effect of conscientiousness in the relationship between neuroticism and HRBs among adolescents. The study was conducted in India and its cross‐sectional sample, procured through a multi‐stage stratified random sampling, consists of 648 (364 males) adolescents (Mage = 16.08). Participants provided relevant information on standardized questionnaires. Moderated regression analysis was applied to test the stated hypotheses. Individuals high on neuroticism and low on conscientiousness reported more indulgence in health‐risk behaviors than individuals high on both neuroticism and conscientiousness. It indicates that a higher level of conscientiousness may reduce the negative impact that neuroticism has on HRBs. The findings imply that the assessment of conscientiousness and strategies to increase the same should be part of interventional programs to achieve adolescents' wellbeing.

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“…Other studies show no such interaction, e.g. for serious diseases that are likely to be genetic (Weston et al 2020;Turiano et al 2020), but also on precautionary behaviour in relation to COVID-19 (Aschwanden et al 2020).…”

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Who are the low educational achievers? An analysis in relation to gender, emotional stability and conscientiousness

Wehner

Schils

2021

Applied Economics

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Low educational qualification, i.e. reaching no or only a very basic educational degree, substantially decreases an individual's prospects on todays labour market. Emotional stability and conscientiousness are known to be predictive of educational achievement. Nevertheless, the moderating role of these two personality traits on the outcome of low educational qualification, and the interaction with gender are far less explored. In this paper, we use rich data from the British Cohort Study 1970 to analyse the relationship between personality measured in adolescence and educational achievement in adulthood. Our results show that less emotionally stable and less conscientious females have the highest risk of reaching only a low educational qualification. In contrast, more emotionally stable and less conscientious males face an above average risk of reaching a low educational qualification. Our results suggest that neglecting gender differences in the moderating relation of these two personality traits on low educational achievement is likely misleading.

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Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Chronic Conditions? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis

Cited by 28 publications

References 67 publications

Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.

Personality and health: Disentangling their between-person and within-person relationship in three longitudinal studies.

Conscientiousness moderates the relationship between neuroticism and health‐risk behaviors among adolescents

Who are the low educational achievers? An analysis in relation to gender, emotional stability and conscientiousness

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