Personality and Medical Illness Burden Among Older Adults in Primary Care
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Personality and medical illness burden among older adults in primary care.
OBJECTIVE To examine the association between Five Factor Model personality traits (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to experience, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness) and physician-quantified aggregate morbidity in a sample of older adults in primary care. METHODS A total of 449 primary care patients, ranging in age from 65 to 97 years (75 +/- 6.9 (mean +/- standard deviation)), completed th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychosomatic Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0033-3174
DOI: 10.1097/psy.0b013e3180313975