Personality and the leading behavioral contributors of mortality

Health Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 51-60

  Turiano, Nicholas A ^a   Chapman, Benjamin P ^a   Gruenewald, Tara L ^b   Mroczek, Daniel K ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big five; health behavior model; mediation; mortality; personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; DYING; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84925860768     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000038     Document Type: Article

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