Integrating Prospective Longitudinal Data: Modeling Personality and Health in the Terman Life Cycle and Hawaii Longitudinal Studies

Autor/inn/en	Kern, Margaret L.; Hampson, Sarah E.; Goldberg, Lewis R.; Friedman, Howard S.
Titel	Integrating Prospective Longitudinal Data: Modeling Personality and Health in the Terman Life Cycle and Hawaii Longitudinal Studies
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 50 (2014) 5, S.1390-1406 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0030874
Schlagwörter	Longitudinal Studies; Risk; Mortality Rate; Personality; Health; Physiology; Guidelines; Factor Structure; Drinking; Elementary School Students; Elementary School Teachers; Educational Attainment; Emotional Adjustment; Diseases; Correlation; Models; Personality Theories; Factor Analysis; Multiple Regression Analysis; Structural Equation Models; California; Hawaii; NEO Personality Inventory; Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Risiko; Mortalitätsrate; Personalität; Gesundheit; Physiologie; Richtlinien; Faktorenstruktur; Trinken; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Emotionale Anpassung; Disease; Krankheit; Korrelation; Analogiemodell; Personality theory; Persönlichkeitstheorie; Faktorenanalyse; Kalifornien
Abstract	The present study used a collaborative framework to integrate 2 long-term prospective studies: the Terman Life Cycle Study and the Hawaii Personality and Health Longitudinal Study. Within a 5-factor personality-trait framework, teacher assessments of child personality were rationally and empirically aligned to establish similar factor structures across samples. Comparable items related to adult self-rated health, education, and alcohol use were harmonized, and data were pooled on harmonized items. A structural model was estimated as a multigroup analysis. Harmonized child personality factors were then used to examine markers of physiological dysfunction in the Hawaii sample and mortality risk in the Terman sample. Harmonized conscientiousness predicted less physiological dysfunction in the Hawaii sample and lower mortality risk in the Terman sample. These results illustrate how collaborative, integrative work with multiple samples offers the exciting possibility that samples from different cohorts and ages can be linked together to directly test life span theories of personality and health. (As Provided).
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