ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2020
Personality and Falls Among Older Adults: Evidence From a Longitudinal Cohort.
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- Personality and Risk of Arthritis in Six Longitudinal Samples.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Pooled it
- The Nebulous Association between Cognitive Impairment and Falls in Older Adults: A Systematic Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Cross-sectional and prospective association between personality traits and IADL/ADL limitations.Psychology and aging · 2021Pooled it
- Personality Traits and Their Association With Falls and Fall-Related Psychological Concerns in Adults Aged 50 and Older: A Scoping Review.Health science reports · 2026Review
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- Personality and epigenetic aging: A multi-cohort and multi-clock study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Personality and falls: evidence from three samples.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
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- Neuroticism, loneliness, all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A 17-year study of nearly 500,000 individuals.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Qualities of Older Adults' Family and Friendship Relationships and Their Association with Life Satisfaction.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring the relationship between falls, fall-related psychological concerns, and personality traits in adults: A scoping review protocol.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Association between personality traits and concerns about falling among older patients: the mediating role of subjective age.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The relationship between fall and loneliness among older people in China: the mediating role of personality trait.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Disaster Damage and Falls/Fear of Falling in Older Adults: 9-Year Follow-Up of Survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.Innovation in aging · 2023Article
- Association between changes in depressive symptoms and hip fracture among middle-aged and older Chinese individuals: a prospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Subjective Age and Falls in Older Age: Evidence From Two Longitudinal Cohorts.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Article
- Longitudinal association between personality traits and homebound status in older adults: results from the National Health and Aging Trends Study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Socioeconomic status and ADL disability of the older adults: Cumulative health effects, social outcomes and impact mechanisms.PloS one · 2022Article
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- The Onset of Falls Reduces Subjective Well-Being. Findings of a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesFalls can have catastrophic consequences, especially for older adults. This study examined whether personality traits predict the incidence of falls in older age.
methodParticipants were older adults aged from 65 to 99 years (N = 4,759) drawn from the Health and Retirement Study. Personality traits and demographic factors were assessed at baseline. Falls were tracked for up to 11 years.
resultsOver the follow-up period, 2,811 individuals reported falls. Cox regression analyses that included demographic covariates indicated that lower conscientiousness and higher neuroticism increased the risk of falling. Disease burden, depressive symptoms, and physical inactivity mediated the associations between both traits and falls incidence, whereas smoking status and handgrip strength mediated the neuroticism-falls incidence association. DISCUSSION: This study provides new prospective evidence that personality predicts the incidence of falls in older adults and suggest that personality assessment may help identifying individuals at higher risk of falling.
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