Personality predicts mortality risk: An integrative data analysis of 15 international longitudinal studies

Graham, Eileen K.; Rutsohn, Joshua P.; Turiano, Nicholas A.; Bendayan, Rebecca; Batterham, Philip J.; Gerstorf, Denis; Katz, Mindy J.; Reynolds, Chandra A.; Sharp, Emily S.; Yoneda, Tomiko B.; Bastarache, Emily D.; Elleman, Lorien G.; Zelinski, Elizabeth M.; Johansson, Boo; Kuh, Diana; et. al.

Abstract

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: we used a Coordinated Analysis with 15 international datasets, representing 44,094 participants. We found that high neuroticism and low conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were consistent predictors of mortality across studies. Smoking had a small mediating effect for neuroticism. Country and baseline age explained variation in effects: studies with older baseline age showed a pattern of protective effects (HR 1.00) for openness, and U.S. studies showed a pattern of protective effects for extraversion. This study demonstrated coordinated analysis as a powerful approach to enhance replicability and reproducibility, especially for aging-related longitudinal research. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Título de la Revista: Journal of Research in Personality
Volumen: 70
Editorial: Elsevier
Fecha de publicación: 2017
Página de inicio: 174
Página final: 186
DOI:

10.1016/j.jrp.2017.07.005

Notas: ISI