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

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  • Wertz, Jasmin
  • Israel, Salomon
  • Arseneault, Louise
  • Belsky, Daniel W.
  • Bourassa, Kyle J.
  • Harrington, HonaLee
  • Houts, Renate
  • Poulton, Richie
  • Richmond-Rakerd, Leah S.
  • Røysamb, Espen
  • Moffitt, Terrie E.
  • Caspi, Avshalom

Abstract

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.

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  • Wertz, Jasmin & Israel, Salomon & Arseneault, Louise & Belsky, Daniel W. & Bourassa, Kyle J. & Harrington, HonaLee & Houts, Renate & Poulton, Richie & Richmond-Rakerd, Leah S. & Røysamb, Espen & Moffi, 2021. "Vital personality scores and healthy aging: Life-course associations and familial transmission," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 285(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:285:y:2021:i:c:s0277953621006158
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114283
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