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SAMPLE ESSAY TITLES
- Describe the evidence relating key personality traits to different kinds of health
outcomes. - Critically evaluate the mechanisms by which personality traits might have impacts on
health. - Do personality differences predict health? Discuss relevant findings and
mechanisms.
FURTHER READING
Journal articles
Bogg, T. and Roberts, B.W. (2013). The case for conscientiousness: Evidence and implications
for a personality trait marker of health and longevity. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 45,
278–288.
Ferguson, E. (2013). Personality is of central concern to understand health: Towards a
theoretical model for health psychology. Health Psychology Review, 7, S32–S70.
Hampson, S.E. (2012). Personality processes: Mechanisms by which personality traits ‘get outside
the skin’. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 315–339.
Pressman, S.D. and Cohen, S. (2005). Does positive affect influence health? Psychological Bulletin,
131, 925–971.
Smith, T.W., Glazer, K., Ruiz, J.M. and Gallo, L.C. (2004). Hostility, anger, aggressiveness
and coronary heart disease: An interpersonal perspective on personality, emotion and health.
Journal of Personality, 72, 1217–1270.
- Achievement-striving
- Agreeableness
- Big Five personality
traits - Conscientiousness
- Cynicism
- Direction of causation
- Extraversion
- Hope/Hopelessness
- Hostile attributional
style- Hostility
- Impatience–irritability
- International
Personality Item Pool - Measurement artefact
- Mistrust
- Negative affect
- Neuroticism
- Openness to
experience - Optimism
- Optimistic
attributional style - Positive affect
- Psychophysiological
reactivity model - Psychosocial
vulnerability model - Third variable problem
- Tropisms
- Type A behaviour
pattern
- Optimistic
KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS