Personality is of central concern to understand health: towards a theoretical model for health psychology
Personality is of central concern to understand health: towards a theoretical model for health psychology
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DOI：
10.1080/17437199.2010.547985
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Ferguson, Eamonn
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作者：
Ferguson, Eamonn
这篇论文阐述了人格特征是健康心理学的核心。要实现这一目标，需要实现三个目标。首先，有必要表明人格影响广泛的健康结果和机制。其次，对目标1的简单描述是不够的，需要开发一个理论规范来解释人格与健康的联系，并允许未来的假设生成。第三，一旦目标1和目标2得到满足，就有必要证明人格的临床效用。在这篇综述中，我认为这三个目标都已实现。我发展了一个理论框架来理解人格和健康之间的联系，借鉴了目前在生物学、进化论和人格神经科学方面的理论。我确定了健康心理学特别关注的特征（即述情障碍、D型、疑病症和同理心），并将这些特征置于进化成本效益分析中。文献在三个层次模型（个人，群体和组织）中进行了回顾，并认为健康心理学需要从传统的关注个人层面转向参与群体和组织层面。
This paper sets out the case that personality traits are central to health psychology. To achieve this, three aims need to be addressed. First, it is necessary to show that personality influences a broad range of health outcomes and mechanisms. Second, the simple descriptive account of Aim 1 is not sufficient, and a theoretical specification needs to be developed to explain the personality-health link and allow for future hypothesis generation. Third, once Aims 1 and 2 are met, it is necessary to demonstrate the clinical utility of personality. In this review I make the case that all three Aims are met. I develop a theoretical framework to understand the links between personality and health drawing on current theorising in the biology, evolution, and neuroscience of personality. I identify traits (i.e., alexithymia, Type D, hypochondriasis, and empathy) that are of particular concern to health psychology and set these within evolutionary cost-benefit analysis. The literature is reviewed within a three-level hierarchical model (individual, group, and organisational) and it is argued that health psychology needs to move from its traditional focus on the individual level to engage group and organisational levels.