The personality factor most strongly and consistently linked to positive health outcomes is:

People often tell you that you are generous, kind, and forgiving.  This suggests that if you were given a personality questionnaire you would score highly in:

In the lectures on personality types and health we saw which of the following patterns:

According to the Chan (2014) article, “Why being neurotic could actually be a good thing”, neuroticism may lead to positive health outcomes if it is paired with high:

  In the Kolbert article, “XXXL: Why are we so fat?”, the author reviews the following explanations:    

A hostile person may have poorer health outcomes because:

A personality characterized by anxiety, depression, and lack of emotional expression has been called:

In a series of studies described in lecture, the participants that ate the most ice cream were:

In the North article, “Could a Personality Test Improve Your Health?”, the author provides support for the idea that understanding and possibly changing one’s personality could:

In a study by Mann and her grad student looking at HPA activation and dieting, they found: