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Marci E J Gleason1, Yana Weinstein, Steve Balsis, Thomas F Oltmanns.
Abstract
Over the past 5 years, the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network (SPAN) has been collecting data on personality in later life with an emphasis on maladaptive personality, social integration, and health outcomes in a representative sample of 1,630 adults aged 55-64 living in the St. Louis area. This program has confirmed the importance of considering both the normal range of personality and in particular the role of maladaptive traits in order to understand individuals' relationships, life events, and health outcomes. In the current article, we discuss the explanatory benefits of considering maladaptive traits or traits associated with personality disorders when discussing the role of personality in social and health outcomes, with an emphasis on adults in middle to later life, and integrate these findings into the greater literature.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23998798 PMCID: PMC3940664 DOI: 10.1111/jopy.12068
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Pers ISSN: 0022-3506