A new life-span approach to conscientiousness and health

Combining the pieces of the causal puzzle

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9794073
AutoresHoward S Friedman (0000-0002-3528-5136, University of California, Riverside, autor de correspondencia), Maria Lúcia Kern (0000-0003-4300-598X, California University of Pennsylvania), Margaret L Kern, Sarah E Hampson (Oregon Research Institute), Angela L Duckworth (0000-0002-2644-3729, University of Pennsylvania)
Año2014
Volumen50
Número5
Páginas1377-1389
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopmental Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/a0030373
PMID23088747
PMCIDPMC3651756
OpenAlexW2326033926
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas43
Referencias citadas45

Conscientiousness has been shown to predict healthy behaviors, healthy social relationships, and physical health and longevity. The causal links, however, are complex and not well elaborated. Many extant studies have used comparable measures for conscientiousness, and a systematic endeavor to build cross-study analyses for conscientiousness and health now seems feasible. Of particular interest are efforts to construct new, more comprehensive causal models by linking findings and combining data from existing studies of different cohorts. Although methodological perils can threaten such integration, such efforts offer an early opportunity to enliven a life course perspective on conscientiousness, to see whether component facets of conscientiousness remain related to each other and to relevant mediators across broad spans of time, and to bolster the findings of the few long-term longitudinal studies of the dynamics of personality and health. A promising approach to testing new models involves pooling data from extant studies as an efficient and heuristic prelude to large-scale testing of interventions

Big Five personality traits · Cognitive psychology · Conscientiousness · Construct (python library · Developmental psychology · Extant taxon · Health psychology · Personality · Pooling · Public health · Computer Science · Medicine · Personality Traits and Psychology · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology · Stress Responses and Cortisol