| A New Life-Span Approach to Conscientiousness and Health: Combining the Pieces of the Causal Puzzle. | |
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PMID: 23088747 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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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. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Howard S Friedman; Margaret L Kern; Sarah E Hampson; Angela Lee Duckworth |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-10-22 |
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Title: Developmental psychology Volume: - ISSN: 1939-0599 ISO Abbreviation: Dev Psychol Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-23 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0260564 Medline TA: Dev Psychol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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