Abstract
Numerous studies that link personality traits with health status, sometimes decades in the future, providing a strong claim for personality traits to causally influence physical health. While the prevailing consensus is that personality traits influence health through intermediary processes like health behaviors, less discussed is the possibility that health status influences personality. In this chapter, we describe the existing evidence that health is associated with changes in personality and discuss the potential mechanisms that relate the two.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Personality Development Across the Lifespan |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 371-384 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128047613 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780128046746 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 14 2017 |
Keywords
- Big Five
- Development
- Health
- Health behaviors
- Longitudinal
- Personality development
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