<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Health on Sara Weston</title><link>https://sarajweston.com/tags/health/</link><description>Recent content in Health on Sara Weston</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sarajweston.com/tags/health/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Is healthy neuroticism associated with chronic conditions? A coordinated integrative data analysis</title><link>https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-2020-healthy/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:41:45 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-2020-healthy/</guid><description>We tested whether conscientiousness changes the link between neuroticism and hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease across 15 longitudinal studies. We found no evidence that it does, either at one time point or in new diagnoses over time.</description></item><item><title>No evidence of "healthy neuroticism" in the Hawaii personality and health cohort</title><link>https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-no-evidence-2019/</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-no-evidence-2019/</guid><description>We searched a long-running Hawaii cohort for signs that neuroticism is healthy for some people. Across conscientiousness, socioeconomic status, chronic disease, and neuroticism facets, we found none.</description></item><item><title>Personality development and health</title><link>https://sarajweston.com/publication/jackson-personality-2017/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sarajweston.com/publication/jackson-personality-2017/</guid><description>This chapter reviews evidence that health status is associated with changes in personality and discusses possible mechanisms linking the two.</description></item><item><title>Connecting social environment variables to the onset of major specific health outcomes</title><link>https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-connecting-2014/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-connecting-2014/</guid><description>We asked whether the social environment predicts which health conditions people develop over the next four years. More positive and less negative support was associated with lower risk for most conditions, but no social measure worked for all of them.</description></item></channel></rss>