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Vital personality scores and healthy aging: Life-course associations and familial transmission.
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Wertz J; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: jasmin.wertz@duke.edu.; Israel S; Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.; Arseneault L; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.; Belsky DW; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA.; Bourassa KJ; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Duke University Medical Center, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, USA.; Harrington H; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.; Houts R; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.; Poulton R; Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.; Richmond-Rakerd LS; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.; Røysamb E; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway.; Moffitt TE; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.; Caspi A; Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Source
Publisher: Pergamon Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8303205 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1873-5347 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 02779536 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Subsets: MEDLINE
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
Objectives: Personality traits are linked with healthy aging, but it is not clear how these associations come to manifest across the life-course and across generations. To study this question, we tested a series of hypotheses about (a) personality-trait prediction of markers of healthy aging across the life-course, (b) developmental origins, stability and change of links between personality and healthy aging across time, and (c) intergenerational transmission of links between personality and healthy aging. For our analyses we used a measure that aggregates the contributions of Big 5 personality traits to healthy aging: a "vital personality" score.
Methods: Data came from two population-based longitudinal cohort studies, one based in New Zealand and the other in the UK, comprising over 6000 study members across two generations, and spanning an age range from birth to late life.
Results: Our analyses revealed three main findings: first, individuals with higher vital personality scores engaged in fewer health-risk behaviors, aged slower, and lived longer. Second, individuals' vital personality scores were preceded by differences in early-life temperament and were relatively stable across adulthood, but also increased from young adulthood to midlife. Third, individuals with higher vital personality scores had children with similarly vital partners, promoted healthier behaviors in their children, and had children who grew up to have more vital personality scores themselves, for genetic and environmental reasons.
Conclusion: Our study shows how the health benefits associated with personality accrue throughout the life-course and across generations.
(© 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Methods: Data came from two population-based longitudinal cohort studies, one based in New Zealand and the other in the UK, comprising over 6000 study members across two generations, and spanning an age range from birth to late life.
Results: Our analyses revealed three main findings: first, individuals with higher vital personality scores engaged in fewer health-risk behaviors, aged slower, and lived longer. Second, individuals' vital personality scores were preceded by differences in early-life temperament and were relatively stable across adulthood, but also increased from young adulthood to midlife. Third, individuals with higher vital personality scores had children with similarly vital partners, promoted healthier behaviors in their children, and had children who grew up to have more vital personality scores themselves, for genetic and environmental reasons.
Conclusion: Our study shows how the health benefits associated with personality accrue throughout the life-course and across generations.
(© 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.)