Longitudinal Associations between Personality Traits and Cognitive Complaints in Midlife and Older Age Across 20 Years.

ABSTRACT: Cross-sectional work suggests that higher neuroticism and lower conscientiousness are consistently related to more subjective cognitive complaints. Little is known about the longitudinal associations. We used data from the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development to examine how personality and cognitive complaints jointly unfolded over 20 years. Participants came from a midlife (n = 502, M_age = 43.7) and an older age group (n = 500, M_age = 62.5). Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models were used to test the personality-complaints associations at the between-person and within-person levels. Analyses controlled for gender, education, subjective health, objective health, and memory. At the between-person level, higher neuroticism and low

SUBMITTER: Aschwanden D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12782213 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature