PSYC 2P25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conscientiousness, Type A And Type B Personality Theory, Job Performance
9 Nov 2012
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Friedman et al. (1993, 1995): compared ratings of children"s personalities (by adults during. 1920s) with later data on eventual age of death (and cause of death) Traits studied: social conscientiousness -> dependability, responsibility, motivation, energy, cheerfulness, mood stability, sociability. Consc. were less likely to die from injuries, but few people died from injuries, so this is not the main reason. High soc-consc people smoked and drank less, and both smoking and drinking predicted earlier death; however, effect of soc. Consc. wasn"t mainly due to smoking and drinking. Cheerfulness wasn"t much related to smoking, drinking, etc. Maybe cheerful people were too optimistic about health -> tended to neglect developing health problems? (don"t know) Contrary to friedman et al. results, a study of nuns (danner et al. , 2001) found that positive emotion in written autobiographies (age 22) predicted longer lifespan *findings for discrepant findings not clear] Some mds suggested that many heart attack patients had similar personality called type a .
