The associations of the Five Factor Model of personality with inflammatory biomarkers: A four-year prospective study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 750-755

  Armon, Galit ^a   Melamed, Samuel ^b   Shirom, Arie ^b   Berliner, Shlomo ^c   Shapira, Itzhak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Big Five; C reactive protein (hsCRP); Cardiovascular disease; Fibrinogen; Five Factor Model; Health behaviors; Inflammation; Longitudinal study; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873526380     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.11.035     Document Type: Article

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