Personality and Perceived Health in Older Adults

Responses to specific questions tapping perceived health are associated with morbidity, mortality, and the use of health services, yet there has been little research on their personality correlates. We examined the associations between Five Factor Model personality traits and responses to four items extracted from the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 in 266 primary care patients who were 65 years of age or older. Multivariate analyses controlling for age, gender, depressive symptoms, and physical disease burden showed that having a higher Neuroticism score was associated with worse perceived health in response to all items except "I am as healthy as anybody I know." Having a lower Extraversion score was associated with worse perceived health in response to the item "I expect my health to get worse." We discuss implications for understanding personality influences on morbidity, mortality, and health services utilization

Big Five personality traits · Factor (programming language · Family medicine · Personality · Primary care · Aging and Gerontology Research · Computer Science · Health and Wellbeing Research · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology · Clinical Psychology · Gerontology · Social Psychology

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