Impact of Optimism and the “Big Five” Personality Factors on Older Persons’ Health
This work studies the influence of Dispositional Optimism and the “Big Five” personality factors on older peoples’ self-rated health and it examines optimists’ and pessimists’ analyses of their own health. The sample is made up of 498 older people (M = 63.3 years and SD = 8.55). The results reveal t...
| Autor Principal: | Gázquez Linares, José Jesús; Universidad de Almería |
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| Otros Autores: | Fuentes, María del Carmen Pérez; Universidad de Almería, Rubio, Isabel Mercader; Universidad de Almería, Inglés Saura, Cándido José; Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche |
| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2014
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/1522 |
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This work studies the influence of Dispositional Optimism and the “Big
Five” personality factors on older peoples’ self-rated health and it examines optimists’ and pessimists’ analyses of their own health. The sample is made up of 498 older people (M = 63.3 years and SD = 8.55). The results reveal that optimists have a better perception of their health and lower levels of social dysfunction and depression. The Neuroticism factor affects to the Somatic Symptoms, Anxiety, Social Dysfunction, and Depression; and is a key factor in the relation established between Dispositional Optimism and the subscale of Depression. However, Optimism only directly affects the subscale Social Dysfunction. |
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