SynthesisScientific reports2022
Personality and fatigue: meta-analysis of seven prospective studies.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Personality change after traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Personality traits and polypharmacy: meta-analysis of five samples.Psychology & health · 2025Pooled it
- Personality and Risk of Arthritis in Six Longitudinal Samples.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Personality associations with lung function and dyspnea: Evidence from six studies.Respiratory medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Purpose in life and concurrent and incident fatigue.Psychology, health & medicine · 2026Article
- The role of self-efficacy and medication adherence in linking personality traits to health-related quality of life in middle-aged and older patients with chronic diseases.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and personality traits associate with excessive fatigue in Norwegian nurses.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associated factors of fatigue in patients with COPD: results from the FAntasTIGUE study.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- Risk factors for fatigue severity in the post-COVID-19 condition: A prospective controlled cohort study of nonhospitalised adolescents and young adults.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2025Article
- Personality and Pain Outcomes in Rheumatic Disease: The Mediating Role of Psychological Flexibility.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Self-perceptual blindness to mental fatigue in mining workers.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2024Article
- Association between personality traits and concerns about falling among older patients: the mediating role of subjective age.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Personality Traits and Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Personality and aging-related immune phenotype.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Is the Pandemic Wearing Us Out? A Cross-Sectional Study of the Prevalence of Fatigue in Adult Twins without Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The present study examined the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between the five major personality traits and fatigue. Participants were adults aged 16-104 years old (N > 40,000 at baseline) from the Health and Retirement Study, the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study graduate and sibling samples, the National Health and Aging Trends Survey, the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Personality traits, fatigue, demographic factors, and other covariates were assessed at baseline, and fatigue was assessed again 5-20 years later. Across all samples, higher neuroticism was related to a higher risk of concurrent (meta-analytic OR = 1.73, 95% CI 1.62-1.86) and incident (OR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.29-1.48) fatigue. Higher extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were associated with a lower likelihood of concurrent (meta-analytic OR range 0.67-0.86) and incident (meta-analytic OR range 0.80-0.92) fatigue. Self-rated health and physical inactivity partially accounted for these associations. There was little evidence that age or gender moderated these associations. This study provides consistent evidence that personality is related to fatigue. Higher neuroticism and lower extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness are risk factors for fatigue.
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