Jasmin Wertz, Salomon Israel, Louise Arseneault, Daniel W Belsky, Kyle J Bourassa, HonaLee Harrington, Renate Houts, Richie Poulton, Leah S Richmond-Rakerd, Espen Røysamb, Terrie E Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi
OBJECTIVES: 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...
July 30, 2021: Social Science & Medicine