The associations between personality, diet and body mass index in older people

Health Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 353-360

  Mõttus, René ^a,b   McNeill, Geraldine ^c   Jia, Xueli ^c   Craig, Leone C A ^c   Starr, John M ^a,d   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d Royal Victoria Hospital Edinburgh   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BMI; Diet; Health behaviors; Older people; Openness; Personality

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGREEABLENESS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; NEUROSIS; OPENNESS; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DIET SURVEYS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY;

EID: 84876022740     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025537     Document Type: Article

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