Pessimistic, Anxious, and Depressive Personality Traits Predict All-Cause Mortality: The Mayo Clinic Cohort Study of Personality and Aging

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 491-500

  Grossardt, Brandon R ^a   Bower, James H ^b   Geda, Yonas E ^b,c   Colligan, Robert C ^b,c   Rocca, Walter A ^a,c,d  

^a Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology ^*

^c MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; MMPI; Mortality; Neuroticism; Pessimism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PESSIMISM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; DYSTHYMIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGING; ANXIETY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MMPI; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650394493     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31819e67db     Document Type: Article

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