Latest Personality traits Stories
By Drs Kay Judge and Maxine Barish-Wreden The secret to a long life is actually pretty simple, according to recent research from the National Institute on Aging. After tracking more than 2,300 people for more than 50 years, researchers there found that calm and active people lived longer than their counterparts. These findings came from data collected by the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging -- the oldest running study on aging -- and were published in the July-August issue of the...
By Korzaan, Melinda L Boswell, Katherine T ABSTRACT This study incorporates the Big Five personality traits into a theoretical model that explains and predicts individuals concerns for information privacy, computer anxiety, and individual behavioral intentions. Data was gathered via a survey, which was completed by 230 undergraduate college students, and analysis was conducted utilizing structural equation modeling. Agreeableness was found to have a significant influence on individual...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women with major depression are more likely than women who are not depressed to have allergies, and allergies also appear to be more common in men with nervous, anxious personalities, a study has found.The findings, from a national survey of 3,032 U.S. adults, suggest there is a relationship between depression or neurotic personality traits and allergy -- and suggest that these associations are different for men and women.Past studies have linked depression and...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who were born very prematurely tend to be more anxious and prone to depression than their peers, a new study suggests. UK researchers found that among 18- and 19-year-olds, those who were born very prematurely - before the 33rd week of pregnancy - generally scored higher on a standard measure of "neuroticism." That is, they were by nature more nervous, moody and lacking in self-esteem than their peers who were born full-term. At the same time,...
The relationship between the size of a brain structure and the ability to recover from traumatic experiences also may influence overall personality type, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. In a followup to earlier findings that an area of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) appears thicker in those who can better control their emotional response to unpleasant memories, the investigators found that study participants who exhibited...
