Big 5 personality traits and interleukin-6: Evidence for "healthy Neuroticism" in a US population sample

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-89

  Turiano, Nicholas A ^a,b   Mroczek, Daniel K ^b   Moynihan, Jan ^a   Chapman, Benjamin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health behaviors; IL 6; Inflammation; Interactions; Interleukin 6; Personality

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGREEABLENESS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMORBIDITY; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; DRUG USE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872181162     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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