Personality and Differences in Health and Longevity

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 461-489

  Kern, Margaret L ^a   Friedman, Howard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementing disease prone personality Friedman's notion of a self healing personality, multidimensional emotional style, and physiological and psychosocial homeostasis; Conscientiousness role in health, individually, and interactively with neuroticism and optimism misunderstood and misinterpreted aspects of personality with respect to health; Disease prone personalities and self healing personalities; Measuring health outcomes personality, a lens through which physiological, emotional, and behavioral states and changes are perceived and interpreted; Personality and differences in health and longevity; Personality, conceptualized and measured at different levels, positive and negative affects, dispositional traits and life story narratives; Psychophysiological models of French physiologist Claude Bernard, and "fight or flight" discoverer Walter Cannon idea of biological homeostasis, applying concept of internal balance to nerves and hormones; The Five Factor Model and health outcomes personality traits of conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, and fifth factor of openness in health and longevity; Understanding health within context of individual's lifelong trajectory how person functions physically, mentally, cognitively, socially and productively at different ages, with different trajectories; Understanding of health, illness and recovery a biopsychosocial conception of personality, natural conception in sophisticated models and research

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EID: 84855802510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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