When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the underlying mechanisms …
The importance of personality for predicting life outcomes in the domains of love, work, and health is well established, as is evidence that personality traits, while relatively stable, can …
How does personality change when people get older? Numerous studies have investigated this question, overall supporting the idea of so-called personality maturation. However …
The strong overlap of personality traits discussed under the label of “dark personality”(eg, psychopathy, spitefulness, moral disengagement) endorses a common framework for …
Several studies have suggested that the rank-order stability of personality increases until midlife and declines later in old age. However, this inverted U-shaped pattern has not …
Decades of research have shown that about half of individual differences in personality traits is heritable. Recent studies have reported that heritability is not fixed, but instead decreases …
Big Five personality traits are assumed to be linked with attitudes toward own aging. Since both constructs have central importance for the aging process, it is surprising that to our …
Humans live in unusually large groups, where relationships are thought to be maintained through complex socio-communicative abilities. The size and quality of social networks are …
M Jokela, J Airaksinen, M Kivimäki… - European Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Personality traits are related to health behaviours, but it is unknown whether changes in personality would lead to changes in health behaviours. We examined whether naturally …