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SUBMITTER: Turiano NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3595549 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Turiano Nicholas A NA Hill Patrick L PL Roberts Brent W BW Spiro Avron A Mroczek Daniel K DK
Journal of research in personality 20121201 6
This study examined the relationship between conscientiousness and mortality over 18 years and whether smoking behavior mediated this relationship. We utilized data from the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study on 1349 men who completed the Goldberg (1992) adjectival markers of the Big Five. Over the 18-year follow-up, 547 (41%) participants died. Through proportional hazards modeling in a structural equation modeling framework, we found that higher levels of conscientiousness significantly pr ...[more]