The relationship between personality, health symptoms and disease

Devised a technique to combine physicians' ratings of health symptoms and diseases on 4 health factors which were correlated with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Found a negative relationship between neuroticism and cancer, and a positive relationship between neuroticism, stress-related...

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Published inPersonality and individual differences Vol. 11; no. 1990; pp. 717 - 723
Main Authors Wistow, D J, Wakefield, J A, Goldsmith, W M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.1990
Subjects
Cancer
Cardiovascular diseases
Personality
Relationship
Risks
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Summary:Devised a technique to combine physicians' ratings of health symptoms and diseases on 4 health factors which were correlated with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Found a negative relationship between neuroticism and cancer, and a positive relationship between neuroticism, stress-related symptoms, and cardiovascular symptoms. These variables only accounted for a small amount of the variance. (Abstract amended)
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ISSN:0191-8869