Vital personality scores and healthy aging: Life-course associations and familial transmission.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Personality traits are linked with healthy aging, but it is not clear how these associations come to manifest across the life-course and across generations. To study this question, we tested a series of hypotheses about (a) personality-trait prediction of markers of healthy aging across the life-course, (b) developmental origins, stability and change of links between personality and healthy aging across time, and (c) intergenerational transmission of links between personality and healthy aging. For our analyses we used a measure that aggregates the contributions of Big 5 personality traits to healthy aging: a "vital personality" score.

Methods

Data came from two population-based longitudinal cohort studies, one based in New Zealand and the other in the UK, compris

SUBMITTER: Wertz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8482063 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature