https://sarajweston.com/tags/longitudinal/Recent content in Longitudinal on Sara WestonHugoen-usMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/atherton-longitudinal-2024/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/atherton-longitudinal-2024/We followed about 7,000 U.S. adults over two decades to see how Big Five personality traits were associated with routine, scheduled, and urgent healthcare use, and whether age, income, insurance, and sense of control mattered.https://sarajweston.com/publication/goktan-personality-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/goktan-personality-2022/Using three waves of MIDUS data spanning about 20 years, we examined how mental health care use and Big Five personality traits changed together over adulthood.https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-trajectories-2020/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-trajectories-2020/We fit the same growth models to 16 longitudinal samples of mostly midlife and older adults and combined the results. Extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness declined slightly on average, and neuroticism showed a U-shaped pattern.https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-personality-2015/Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:41:45 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-personality-2015/In about 6,900 older adults followed for four years, personality traits, most notably conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness, were associated with the risk of a new disease diagnosis.