
Personality and Disease
Scientific Proof vs. Wishful Thinking
Description
Key Features
- Investigates whether and how personality affects disease generally
- Includes cancer, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, allergies, and dementia
- Separates fact from fiction, evidence from beliefs
- Collates research from a wide variety of scientific domains
- Contains international perspectives from top scholars
Readership
Researchers in health psychology, psychoneuroimmunology, behavioral medicine
Table of Contents
1. A Brief Historical Overview on Links Between Personality and Health
Jesper Dammeyer and Ingo Zettler
2. How to Measure the Personality
Per Bech
3. Personality as Determinant of Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, Physical Activity, and Diet Preferences
Christian Hakulinen and Markus Jokela
4. Personality and Cardiovascular Disease
Pernille E. Bidstrup, Ivalu K. Sørensen and Emil Wolsk
5. Personality and Type 2 Diabetes: An Overview of the Epidemiological Evidence
Mika Kivimäki, G. David Batty and Markus Jokela
6. Personality and Dementia: Personality as Risk Factor or as Early Manifestation in Dementing Disorders?
Lianne M. Reus, Lena Johansson and Pieter J. Visser
7. Personality, Asthma, and Allergies
Adrian Furnham and Helen Cheng
8. The Personality and Risk for Cancer
Christoffer Johansen
9. Personality and Social Relationships: As Thick as Thieves
Marcus Mund, Bertus F. Jeronimus and Franz J. Neyer
10. Personality Genetics
Jaime Derringer
11. The Enduring Appeal of Psychosocial Explanations of Physical Illness
Roderick D. Buchanan, Nick Haslam and Wade Pickren
12. What Mechanisms Explain the Links Between Personality and Health?
Deborah J. Wiebe, Anna Song and Maria D. Ramirez Loyola
Product details
- No. of pages: 274
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: June 29, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128054451
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128053003