Personality, chronic medical morbidity, and health-related quality of life among older persons

被引：135

作者：

Kempen, GIJM

Jelicic, M

Ormel, J

机构：

[1] UNIV GRONINGEN, SCH MED, DEPT HLTH SCI, NL-9713 AV GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS

[2] UNIV GRONINGEN, DEPT PSYCHIAT, NL-9713 AV GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS

来源：

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY | 1997年 / 16卷 / 06期

关键词：

personality; chronic morbidity; health-related quality of life; neuroticism; mastery; self-efficacy;

D O I：

10.1037/0278-6133.16.6.539

中图分类号：

B849 [应用心理学];

学科分类号：

040203 ;

摘要：

This article examines the main and moderating effects of 3 personality characteristics on the association between chronic medical morbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in a large (N = 5,279) community-based older sample. Reasonably high unique contributions of neuroticism, mastery, and self-efficacy to HRQL were found. The additional amounts of variance explained beyond and above medical morbidity and age vary from about 4% (bodily pain) to above 30% (mental health). Little empirical evidence was found for the moderating effects of personality. In conclusion, personality characteristics such as neuroticism, mastery, and self-efficacy influence the reported levels of HRQL. The extent to which this is due to an influence of personality on true versus perceived levels of HRQL is unclear.

引用

页码：539 / 546

页数：8

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