The stability of intraindividual means and standard deviations of affect
Using two experience sampling studies with a one-year gap, we asked how many observations per person it takes for average emotion and emotional …
Personality
Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the US
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 …
On person-community fit: Trait-, person-, and type-based approaches to measurement
We compared three ways of measuring how well a person’s personality fits their community, using data from 75,705 people across the US. Fit was …
Scaling a common assessment of associative ability: Development and validation of a multiple-choice compound remote associates task
We built a multiple-choice version of the compound remote associates task, a common measure of associative ability, and tested its reliability and …
The role of personality traits in health care utilization
We asked whether Big Five personality traits are associated with using health care over two decades among older U.S. adults, once chronic conditions …
Personality trait predictors of healthcare use: A coordinated analysis of 15 samples
Across 15 samples and nearly 359,000 people, we found small but consistent associations between Big Five traits and visiting the dentist, seeing a …
Body mass in US adolescents: Stronger ties to socioeconomic status than personality
In about 9,500 US adolescents, parental socioeconomic status was more strongly associated with body mass percentile than any personality trait or …
Personality traits and mental health care utilization: Longitudinal findings from the MIDUS
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 …
Prospective self- and informant-personality associations with inflammation, health behaviors, and health indicators
In older adults from St. Louis, personality reported by the participant and by someone who knows them well were each associated with later …
Personality States of the Union
We tracked the daily average personality of U.S. adults through 2020 and asked whether it shifted after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and …
A Lifespan perspective on the interconnections between personality, health, and optimal aging
A chapter on how personality shapes healthy aging through long chains of events, feedback loops, and effects that change across the lifespan, and how …
Is healthy neuroticism associated with chronic conditions? A coordinated integrative data analysis
We tested whether conscientiousness changes the link between neuroticism and hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease across 15 longitudinal studies. …
Is healthy neuroticism associated with longevity? A coordinated integrative data analysis
We asked whether neuroticism is only linked to earlier death when conscientiousness is low, using the same preregistered analysis in 12 longitudinal …
Personality traits predict dietary habits in middle-to-older adults
In 665 middle-aged adults from the Hawaii Personality and Health Cohort, traits such as conscientiousness and openness were associated with eating …
Trajectories of big five personality traits: A coordinated analysis of 16 longitudinal samples
We fit the same growth models to 16 longitudinal samples of mostly midlife and older adults and combined the results. Extraversion, openness, and …
No evidence of "healthy neuroticism" in the Hawaii personality and health cohort
We searched a long-running Hawaii cohort for signs that neuroticism is healthy for some people. Across conscientiousness, socioeconomic status, …
The co-development of perceived support and the Big Five in middle and older adulthood
Using data from more than 20,000 older adults in the Health and Retirement Study, we examined how perceived support from children, family, friends, …
Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending
Using about 2 million bank transactions from 2,133 people, we looked at how Big Five personality traits are associated with holiday spending. …
Reconsidering what is vital about vital signs in electronic health records: Comment on Matthews et al. (2016)
A short commentary on an Institute of Medicine committee’s recommendations for which psychosocial measures belong in electronic health records. …
How do people respond to health news? The role of personality traits
We asked adults to imagine receiving worrying health news and to say what they would do next. Both the features of the news and the person’s …
Personality Traits Predict the Onset of Disease
In about 6,900 older adults followed for four years, personality traits, most notably conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness, were associated …
Identification of the healthy neurotic: Personality traits predict smoking after disease onset
We asked whether the combination of high neuroticism and high conscientiousness is associated with less smoking after a person develops a serious …