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Personality Accounts for the Connection Between Volunteering and Health.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | King, Hannah R. Jackson, Joshua J. Morrow-Howell, Nancy L. Oltmanns, Thomas F. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | OBJECTIVES Existing literature has shown that volunteering is related to better physical and mental health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine whether personality traits and volunteering are independent predictors of physical and mental health. METHODS The current study utilizes data from the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network (SPAN), a representative sample of community-based adults between the ages of 55 and 64. Using hierarchical linear regressions, we test whether volunteering is a significant predictor of both physical and mental health while controlling for personality traits. RESULTS We find that volunteering is not significantly related to either physical or mental health while controlling for personality traits. We also find that lower neuroticism is related to better physical functioning and mental health, whereas higher extraversion is related to better mental health. DISCUSSION These results indicate that volunteering may be related to health outcomes because of the personality characteristics of volunteers, not the volunteering experience in and of itself. Future longitudinal studies are needed to further explore the relationship between personality, volunteering, and health. |
| Starting Page | 1545 |
| Ending Page | 1554 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2210&context=etd |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/personality/j_gerontol_b_psychol_sci_soc_sci-2014-king-geronb-gbu012.pdf |
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| PubMed reference number | 24704620v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbu012 |
| DOI | 10.1093/geronb/gbu012 |
| Journal | The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences |
| Volume Number | 70 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Antisocial Personality Disorder Extraversion (Psychology) Health Outcomes Histrionic Personality Disorder Regression - mental defense mechanism Trait mental health |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
