ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2019
High school personality traits and 48-year all-cause mortality risk: results from a national sample of 26 845 baby boomers.
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- Adolescent Predictors of Firearm Suicide Over Four Decades of Life in U.S. Men.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- The evolution of personality disorders: A review of proposals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Childhood self-control forecasts the pace of midlife aging and preparedness for old age.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Association Between High School Personality Phenotype and Dementia 54 Years Later in Results From a National US Sample.JAMA psychiatry · 2020Article
- The Project Talent Twin and Sibling Study: Zygosity and New Data Collection.Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundIt is unclear if adolescent personality predicts mortality into late life, independent of adolescent socioeconomic status (SES).
methodsOver 26 000 members of Project Talent, a US population cohort of high school students, completed a survey including 10 personality scales and SES in 1960. Multi-source mortality follow-up obtained vital status data through an average 48-year period ending in 2009. Cox proportional hazard models examined the relative risk associated with personality traits, as well as confounding by both a measure of SES and by race/ethnicity.
resultsAdjusted for sex and grade, higher levels of vigour, calm, culture, maturity and social sensitivity in high school were associated with reduced mortality risk (HRs=0.92 to. 96), while higher levels of impulsivity were associated with greater mortality risk. Further adjustment for SES and school racial/ethnic composition mildly attenuated (eg, 12%), but did not eliminate these associations. Final HRs for a 1 SD change in personality traits were similar to that for a 1 SD change in SES.
conclusionsAdaptive personality traits in high school are associated with all-cause mortality in the USA as far into the future as the seventh decade, and to a degree similar to high school socioeconomic disadvantage.
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