Objective: To study the association between several personality traits and all-cause
mortality. Methods: We established a historical cohort of 7216 subjects who completed the …

Objective To examine if the personality traits neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to
experience are related to all-cause mortality in older adults over a follow-up period of 19 …

OBJECTIVE To examine a measure of explanatory style, the Optimism-Pessimism (PSM)
scale derived from college-entry Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scores, as a …

This study examined the Big Five personality traits as predictors of mortality risk, and
smoking as a mediator of that association. Replication was built into the fabric of our design …

Individual differences in the Big Five personality traits have emerged as predictors of health
and longevity. Although there are robust protective effects for higher levels of …

Objective To examine explanatory style (how people explain life events) as a risk factor for
early death, using scores from the Optimism-Pessimism scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic …

Previous studies have indicated that high neuroticism is associated with early mortality.
However, recent work suggests that people's level of neuroticism changes over long periods …

Background Majority of studies on personality and physical health have focused on one or
two isolated personality traits. We aim to test the independent association of 10 personality …

The need for a paradigm shift is usually signaled when large-scale studies that appear to be
well designed produce inconsistent and contradictory results. Contradiction forces …

Objective: The objective of this study was to test the association of the personality traits of
neuroticism and extraversion with risk of death in old age. Methods: A census was taken of a …