Personality Predicts Mortality Risk: An Integrative Data Analysis of 15 International Longitudinal Studies

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• Alternative Title:
  J Res Pers
• Personal Author:
  Graham, Eileen K. ; Rutsohn, Joshua P. ; Turiano, Nicholas A. ; Bendayan, Rebecca ; Batterham, Philip J. ; Gerstorf, Denis ; Katz, Mindy J. ; Reynolds, Chandra A. ; Sharp, Emily S. ; Yoneda, Tomiko B. ; Bastarache, Emily D. ; Elleman, Lorien G. ; Zelinski, Elizabeth M. ; Johansson, Boo ; Kuh, Diana ; Barnes, Lisa L. ; Bennett, David A. ; Deeg, Dorly J.H. ; Lipton, Richard B. ; Pedersen, Nancy L. ; Piccinin, Andrea M. ; Spiro, Avron ; Muniz-Terrera, Graciela ; Willis, Sherry L. ; Schaie, K. Warner ; Roan, Carol ; Herd, Pamela ; Hofer, Scott M. ; Mroczek, Daniel K.
• Description:
  This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of mortality risk, and smoking as a mediator of that association. Replication was built into the fabric of our design: we used a Coordinated Analysis with 15 international datasets, representing 44,094 participants. We found that high neuroticism and low conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were consistent predictors of mortality across studies. Smoking had a small mediating effect for neuroticism. Country and baseline age explained variation in effects: studies with older baseline age showed a pattern of protective effects (HR<1.00) for openness, and U.S. studies showed a pattern of protective effects for extraversion. This study demonstrated coordinated analysis as a powerful approach to enhance replicability and reproducibility, especially for aging-related longitudinal research.
• Subjects:
  Article Generalizability Health Behaviors Mortality Personality Replicability
• Source:
  J Res Pers. 70:174-186.
• Pubmed ID:
  29230075
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5722274
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  RF1 AG015819/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; R01 AG018436/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; MC_UU_12019/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom ; P30 AG017266/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P30 AG010161/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; RF1 AG022018/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; U48 DP005004/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States ; P01 AG020166/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; U19 AG051426/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States ; P01 AG043362/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  70
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2dbcda78c796c34e39de9c888259db68860705a337ab98fc481d2a9f6e9711d7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53475/cdc_53475_DS1.pdf
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