The relationship between early personality and midlife psychological well-being: evidence from a UK birth cohort study.
The relationship between early personality and midlife psychological well-being: evidence from a UK birth cohort study.
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DOI：
10.1007/s00127-008-0355-8
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发表时间：
2008-09
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Huppert FA
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文献类型：
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作者：
Abbott RA;Croudace TJ;Ploubidis GB;Kuh D;Richards M;Huppert FA
个性差异会影响一生中心理健康问题的发生、报告和结果，但对成年人心理健康的影响却知之甚少。这项研究的目的是考察艾森克的人格维度和中年心理健康之间的长期联系。研究样本包括1946年英国出生队列中的1134名女性。采用Maudsley个性问卷对青春期(16岁)和成年期早期(26岁)的外向和神经质进行了评估。在52岁时，用Ryff的心理健康量表的42个条目版本来评估心理健康。分析是在结构方程模型框架内进行的，该框架允许对幸福感和个性项目进行顺序处理，并对关于情绪调整的纵向数据进行潜在变量建模。心理健康问题在将个性差异与后来的幸福感联系起来方面的贡献是通过由多个时间点评估创建的心理健康(情绪调整)的汇总测量来评估的。社交越外向(外向)的女性在各个方面都有更高的幸福感。神经质与所有维度的幸福感都较低有关。早期神经质对中年幸福感的影响几乎完全是通过情绪调整来调节的，情绪调整的定义是心理/精神痛苦的连续性。外倾性的影响不是通过情绪调节调节的，也不是在神经质调节后减弱的。成人早期的外向和神经质的个体差异会影响中年幸福感的报告水平。
Individual differences in personality influence the occurrence, reporting and outcome of mental health problems across the life course, but little is known about the effects on adult psychological well-being. The aim of this study was to examine long range associations between Eysenck’s personality dimensions and psychological well-being in midlife. The study sample comprised 1,134 women from the 1946 British birth cohort. Extraversion and neuroticism were assessed using the Maudsley Personality Inventory in adolescence (age 16 years) and early adulthood (age 26). Psychological well-being was assessed at age 52 with a 42-item version of Ryff’s psychological well-being scale. Analyses were undertaken within a structural equation modelling framework that allowed for an ordinal treatment of well-being and personality items, and latent variable modelling of longitudinal data on emotional adjustment. The contribution of mental health problems in linking personality variations to later well-being was assessed using a summary measure of mental health (emotional adjustment) created from multiple time-point assessments. Women who were more socially outgoing (extravert) reported higher well-being on all dimensions. Neuroticism was associated with lower well-being on all dimensions. The effect of early neuroticism on midlife well-being was almost entirely mediated through emotional adjustment defined in terms of continuities in psychological/ psychiatric distress. The effect of extraversion was not mediated by emotional adjustment, nor attenuated after adjustment for neuroticism. Individual differences in extraversion and neuroticism in early adult life influence levels of well-being reported in midlife.
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影响因子：
9.9
作者：
EYSENCK, HJ
通讯作者：
EYSENCK, HJ
影响因子：
3
作者：
MUTHEN, B
通讯作者：
MUTHEN, B
影响因子：
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作者：
Kendler, Kenneth S.;Gatz, Margaret;Pedersen, Nancy L.
通讯作者：
Pedersen, Nancy L.
影响因子：
3.6
作者：
Abbott, Rosemary A.;Ploubidis, George B.;Croudace, Tim J.
通讯作者：
Croudace, Tim J.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Gutiérrez, JLG;Moreno-Jiménez, B;Puente, CP
通讯作者：
Puente, CP