“…Importantly, self-efficacy beliefs are also associated with personality traits including neuroticism (e.g., Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 2002) and conscientiousness (Lee & Klein, 2002). Moreover, self-efficacy was found to mediate the relationship between personality traits and health-related outcomes such as weight management (Hayashi et al, 2008). Although these findings implicate self-efficacy as a potential mediator of the link between personality traits and caregiver health, there have been no empirical tests of this association.…”