What Leads to Good Health in Midlife Women Physicians? Some Clues From a Longitudinal Study

Bibliographic Data

ID19309146
AuthorsLillian Kaufman Cartwright (Cargill (Netherlands)), Paul Wink (Cargill (Netherlands)), Christal Kmetz (Cargill (Netherlands))
Year1995
Volume57
Issue3
Pages284-292
Publication date1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00006842-199505000-00010
PMID7652129
OpenAlexW2334080985
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

Data from a longitudinal study of women physicians is used to study psychosocial and current implications of good health in midlife. The women comprise the classes 1964 to 1967 of the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco. The subjects were interviewed and tested using the California Psychological Inventory while they were still in medical school (Time 1, average age 24 years) and at midlife (Time 2, average age 46 years). The women in good health at midlife, in contrast to their peers, were characterized by certain personality traits, including a higher degree of intellectual efficiency and empathy and relatively less hostility. Early antecedents of good health included having better educated parents. Good physical health at Time 2 was also predicted by Time 1 personality traits reflecting planful, logical, and efficacious use of intellectual resources and having optimistic, trusting relationships with others

Big Five personality traits · Empathy · Hostility · Longitudinal study · Personality · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Clinical Psychology · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Health, psychology, and well-being · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology

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