SynthesisAmerican journal of epidemiology2013
Personality and all-cause mortality: individual-participant meta-analysis of 3,947 deaths in 76,150 adults.
Synthesis in American journal of epidemiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04386135 (DESVELA Cohort. Analysis of the Role of Personal Skills as Determinants of Incidence of Morbidity, Lifestyles, Quality of Life, Use of Services and Mortality.), which is not on this map. Cited by 126 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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DESVELA Cohort. Analysis of the Role of Personal Skills as Determinants of Incidence of Morbidity, Lifestyles, Quality of Life, Use of Services and Mortality.
Who cites it
126 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Personality and mortality risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal data.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Personality traits and mediating pathways to mortality risk: A systematic review.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Pooled it
- Causal effects between personality and psychiatric traits and lung cancer: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization and bibliometric study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Neuroticism facets and mortality risk in adulthood: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2023Pooled it
- Cross-National and Cross-Generational Evidence That Educational Attainment May Slow the Pace of Aging in European-Descent Individuals.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Pooled it
- The Big Five personality traits and allostatic load in middle to older adulthood: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Pooled it
- The Association Between Five Factor Model Personality Traits and Verbal and Numeric Reasoning.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2022Pooled it
- White-coat hypertension is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and total mortality.Journal of hypertension · 2017Pooled it
- Personality and smoking: individual-participant meta-analysis of nine cohort studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
- PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES.Depression and anxiety · 2015Pooled it
- Personality and alcohol consumption: Pooled analysis of 72,949 adults from eight cohort studies.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2015Pooled it
- Is personality associated with cancer incidence and mortality? An individual-participant meta-analysis of 2156 incident cancer cases among 42,843 men and women.British journal of cancer · 2014Pooled it
- A Taxonomy of Data Synthesis.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2026Article
- The effect of personality on likelihood of contracting SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.Personality and individual differences · 2026Article
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- Personality nuances and mortality risk: A coordinated analysis of four longitudinal samples.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2025Article
- US state death rates: Structural equation modeling of Big Five personality, socioeconomic status, and health risk factors.Journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Impact of personality traits on activities of daily living in patient-reported outcomes one and six months after total knee arthroplasty: a cohort study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Article
- Decomposing the association of psychosocial wellbeing with all-cause mortality: the mediating role of physical health and lifestyle factors.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Intelligence and Personality Traits Differentiated by Gender in Spanish Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Personality may influence the risk of death, but the evidence remains inconsistent. We examined associations between personality traits of the five-factor model (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) and the risk of death from all causes through individual-participant meta-analysis of 76,150 participants from 7 cohorts (the British Household Panel Survey, 2006-2009; the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, 2005-2010; the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, 2006-2010; the US Health and Retirement Study, 2006-2010; the Midlife in the United States Study, 1995-2004; and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study's graduate and sibling samples, 1993-2009). During 444,770 person-years at risk, 3,947 participants (54.4% women) died (mean age at baseline = 50.9 years; mean follow-up = 5.9 years). Only low conscientiousness-reflecting low persistence, poor self-control, and lack of long-term planning-was associated with elevated mortality risk when taking into account age, sex, ethnicity/nationality, and all 5 personality traits. Individuals in the lowest tertile of conscientiousness had a 1.4 times higher risk of death (hazard ratio = 1.37, 95% confidence interval: 1.18, 1.58) compared with individuals in the top 2 tertiles. This association remained after further adjustment for health behaviors, marital status, and education. In conclusion, of the higher-order personality traits measured by the five-factor model, only conscientiousness appears to be related to mortality risk across populations.
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