Background France has a substantially lower level of premature mortality from
cardiovascular diseases (CVD) relative to its comparators. Compared with Northern Ireland …

Objective Personality traits are associated with adverse health outcomes in old age, but their
association with motor function is unclear. We tested the hypothesis that neuroticism and …

Relations between state-aggregated responses of 619,397 residents to the neuroticism
items of the Big Five Inventory and 2005-2007 age-adjusted state cancer, heart disease …

Purpose Little is known about the effect of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) on the risks
of cause-specific mortality in the community. This study aimed to close this gap by evaluating …

Method We reproduced the analyses reported by Gale and colleagues as closely as
possible using data derived from the UK Biobank study. A full list of the variables we used …

Objective: This study addressed whether personality in childhood and personality in
adulthood are independent predictors of mortality risk and the extent to which behavioral …

This chapter reviews the meta-analytic evidence on how personality traits of the Five-Factor
Model (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to …

Background Many theories have been proposed to explain the high levels of 'excess'
mortality (ie higher mortality over and above that explained by differences in socio-economic …

BackgroundSubjectively assessed health is related to mortality. Various subjective
indicators of health have been studied, but it is unclear whether perceived physical …

Objectives This paper presents further analysis of a study aimed at examining the
determinants of good health and successful ageing in an area of deprivation. In this paper …