MIDUS on Sara Westonhttps://sarajweston.com/tags/midus/Recent content in MIDUS on Sara WestonHugoen-usMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the UShttps://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.Personality traits and mental health care utilization: Longitudinal findings from the MIDUShttps://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.Working toward a purpose: Examining the cross-sectional and longitudinal effects of work characteristics on sense of purposehttps://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-working-2021/Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/weston-working-2021/Using up to three waves of the MIDUS study, we asked which features of work are associated with a sense of purpose in life. Skill variety and coworker support were, and the associations were modest.