SynthesisDrug and alcohol dependence2015
Personality and alcohol consumption: Pooled analysis of 72,949 adults from eight cohort studies.
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Personality and cardiovascular mortality risk: a multi-cohort analysis in individuals with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Pooled it
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- The Relationship Between Gambling Problems and the Five-Factor Model of Personality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Personality and smoking: individual-participant meta-analysis of nine cohort studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Pooled it
- Personality traits and alcohol consumption: Secondary analysis of the Self-Match Study.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Trial
- Personality variability during development predicts alcohol use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Which personality traits are necessary conditions for problematic alcohol use? Insights from a 23-year longitudinal study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Life-long coping patterns and bio-psycho-social predictors of individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic-protocol of the Rostock Longitudinal Study (ninth wave).Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Consistent predictors of adolescent substance use: cross-sectional comparison across five countries.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Alcohol Misuse: Integrating Personality Traits and Decision-Making Styles for Profiling.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Modeling social cognition in alcohol use disorder: lessons from schizophrenia.Psychopharmacology · 2025Review
- Neural correlates of choosing alcohol over a palatable food reward in humans.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Article
- Understanding Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use in Young College Students: A Qualitative Work from India Based on Social Norms Theory.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2024Article
- Personality and Self-efficacy for Illness Management in Cancer.Research square · 2024Article
- OPRM1 Gene Polymorphism in Women with Alcohol Use Disorder.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Rural-urban differences in personality traits and well-being in adulthood.Journal of personality · 2024Article
- Bridging the Gap: A Holistic View of Personality Factors in Individuals With and Without Alcohol Use.Cureus · 2024Review
- Drinking motives, personality traits and life stressors-identifying pathways to harmful alcohol use in adolescence using a panel network approach.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Article
- An agent-based model of binge drinking, inequitable gender norms and their contribution to HIV transmission, with application to South Africa.BMC infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Personality and aging-related immune phenotype.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe role of personality as a determinant of alcohol consumption has long been debated, but prospective evidence is scarce.
methodsWe performed individual participant meta-analysis to examine the association between the Five-Factor Model personality traits (extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) and alcohol consumption using data from eight cohort studies sampled from the USA, UK, Germany, and Australia (total n=72,949; mean age=50 years, 54% female). Alcohol consumption was categorized into abstinence, moderate consumption, and heavy consumption.
resultsAfter adjustment for age, sex, and race, higher extraversion (odds ratio for 1 standard deviation's increase in the score; 95% confidence interval: 1.14; 1.01-1.29) and lower conscientiousness (0.89; 0.79-1.00) were associated with increased risk of transitioning from moderate to heavy alcohol consumption over time, and also with heavy alcohol consumption. Lower extraversion (0.91; 0.85-0.98), higher agreeableness (1.09; 1.02-1.15), and lower openness (0.90; 0.86-0.95) were associated with increased odds of transitioning from moderate consumption to abstinence as well as with alcohol abstinence.
conclusionFindings from this individual-participant meta-analysis suggest that high and increasing alcohol consumption is more common among extraverts and those low on conscientiousness whereas high agreeableness and low openness to experience may increase odds of reducing alcohol consumption and preferring abstinence.
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