Definition
The influence of an individual’s though processes, feelings, and behaviors on health, particularly as these factors pertain to risk of dying. This includes death by any cause, as well as death in the context of diseases.
Introduction
Personality can be described as characteristic thought processes, feelings, and ultimately, behaviors that exhibit interindividual variation. The link between personality and health has been of interest to the medical and scientific communities for quite some time. Since Friedman and Roseman published their landmark study investigating personality and cardiovascular disease in 1959 (Friedman and Rosenman 1959), there has been a proliferation of research aiming to better define personality and its link with various health outcomes. Initially, there was a...
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El-Baba, M., Jamnik, J. (2020). Personality and Mortality. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_2111
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