Personality as Risk and Resilience in Physical Health

By Timothy W. Smith. 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology

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Psychological vulnerability, resilience, and subjective well-being: The mediating role of hope (2016, background): “People who are resilient are more persistent in the face of adversity, can struggle better with threatening circumstances, deal effectively with stress and hardship, have more capacity to respond life stressors and cope better with everyday difficulties (Mandleco & Perry, 2000; Smith, 2006).”
Examining The Job-Related, Psychological, and Physical Outcomes of Workplace Sexual Harassment: A Meta-Analytic Review (2008, background): “At times of high stress, our bodies respond with more vigorous physiological reactions, suppressed immune functioning, and heightened inflammation (Smith, 2006).”
Personality and Pathways of Influence on Physical Health (2011, background): “Most likely, causal links entail multiple pathways (Friedman, 2008; Hampson & Friedman, 2008; Smith, 2006).”
Less Adaptive or More Maladaptive? A Meta–analytic Investigation of Procrastination and Coping (2015, methodology): “This is surprising given that, as an act, procrastination can be viewed as a form of avoidant coping for dealing with unpleasant or aversive tasks (Blunt & Pychyl, 2000) and that models of personality and health posit a central role for coping in explaining how personality is linked to stress and ot”
The Power of Personality: The Comparative Validity of Personality Traits, Socioeconomic Status, and Cognitive Ability for Predicting Important Life Outcomes (2007, background): “Personality traits may affect health and ultimately longevity through at least three distinct processes (Contrada, Cather, & O’Leary, 1999; Pressman & Cohen, 2005; Rozanski, Blumenthal, & Kaplan, 1999; T.W. Smith, 2006).”
Interrupting the Workplace: Examining Stressors in an Information Technology Context (2015, background): “The transactional stress perspective is similar to the interactional sress perspective, except it considers exposure to frequency, severity, and duration of the stressful conditions as well as availability of stress reducing resources i.e., social support (Smith, 2006).”
Health benefits: Meta-analytically determining the impact of well-being on objective health outcomes (2007, background): “Further, it has been suggested that, at the molecular level, well-being may improve health more Well-being and health: A meta-analysis 119 directly both by enhancing immune system response and buffering the system from negative effects of stress (Pressman & Cohen, 2005; Smith, 2006).”
A hierarchical integration of dispositional determinants of general health in students: The Big Five, trait Emotional Intelligence and Humour Styles (2008, background): “Over the past decades a number of potential mechanisms that might link personality and health have been proposed (Smith, 2006), including mediation models in which the relation between traits and health is mediated by other variables (e.”
Identification of the healthy neurotic: Personality traits predict smoking after disease onset (2015, background): “Given the different relationship between personality and smoking pre- and post-disease, it is necessary for future research to test whether the many proposed pathways between personality in health (e.g., Hampson & Friedman, 2008; Smith, 2006) vary according to disease status.”
Public Health Significance of Neuroticism (2009, background): “A number of detailed causal models of the multiple mechanisms linking neuroticism and physical health outcomes have been proposed (Contrada et al., 1999;T. W. Smith, 2006).”