Background: Whether white-coat hypertension (WCH) is an innocent phenomenon is
controversial. Method: In this study, we evaluated the association of WCH and the risk of …

This meta-analytic review addresses whether the major dimensions of trait personality relate
to components of human sexuality. A comprehensive literature search identified 137 studies …

Objective: To derive a robust and comprehensive estimate of the overall relation between
Big Five personality traits and health variables using metasynthesis (ie, second-order meta …

Background Personality is suggested to be a major risk factor for depression but large‐scale
individual participant meta‐analyses on this topic are lacking. Method Data from 10 …

Objectives This study aims to evaluate the impact of psychological and sociodemographic
variables on perceived personal and comparative susceptibility to diseases caused by a …

Personality traits have been found to be related to a variety of health outcomes. The aim of
this study was to examine how personality traits were associated with adjustment to the …

The Five Factor Model, which measures individual differences on extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience, is …

Decades of studies identify personality traits as prospectively associated with life outcomes.
However, previous investigations of personality characteristic-outcome associations have …

Aims To investigate cross‐sectional and longitudinal associations between personality and
smoking, and test whether socio‐demographic factors modify these associations. Design …

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 …