The personality meta-trait of stability and carotid artery atherosclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several personality traits increase the risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Because many of these traits are correlated, their associations with disease risk could reflect shared variance, rather than unique contributions of each trait. We examined a higher-order personality trait of Stability as related to preclinical atherosclerosis and tested whether any such relationship might be explained by correlated variation in cardiometabolic risk factors.

Method

Among 798 community volunteers, lower-order traits of Neuroticism, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness were modeled as latent variables (from self- and informant ratings) and used to estimate the second-order factor, Stability. Cardiometabolic risk was similarly modeled from indicators of glycemic

SUBMITTER: Ringwald WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10760807 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature