Personality and all-cause mortality: Individual-participant meta-analysis of 3,947 deaths in 76,150 adults

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 667-675

  Jokela, Markus ^a,b   Batty, G David ^c,d   Nyberg, Solja T ^e   Virtanen, Marianna ^e   Nabi, Hermann ^f   Singh Manoux, Archana ^c,f   Kivimäki, Mika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^f INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

meta analysis; mortality; personality; psychology; survival analysis

Indexed keywords

AGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; PSYCHOLOGY; RETIREMENT; SIBLING; SURVEY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CONSCIENCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PLANNING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONTROL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPERAMENT; UNITED STATES;

META-ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883472298     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt170     Document Type: Review

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