Five-factor model personality traits and verbal fluency in 10 cohorts.

ABSTRACT: Personality traits, such as Neuroticism and Conscientiousness, are associated with cognitive outcomes across the life span, including cognitive function in young adulthood and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in old age. Research on personality and age-related cognition has focused primarily on memory-related tasks and outcomes. The purpose of this research is to address the relation between Five Factor Model personality traits and another critical marker of cognitive function that has received less attention-verbal fluency. We examine this relation across adulthood in 10 cohorts (11 samples) that totaled more than 90,000 participants (age range 16-101). Participants in all samples reported on their personality traits and completed at least one fluency task (semantic and/or letter

SUBMITTER: Sutin AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530572 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature