Kate E. Walton

TL;DR: The present study used meta-analytic techniques to determine the patterns of mean-level change in personality traits across the life course and showed that people increase in measures of social dominance, conscientiousness, and emotional stability in young adulthood and decrease in both of these domains in old age.

TL;DR: A measure that assesses a number of broad behaviors associated with the personality trait of conscientiousness (the Behavioral Indicators of Conscientiousness; BIC) is developed and validates.

TL;DR: The role of conscientiousness plays in the health process over the life course is discussed in this paper, where the authors describe their research on the underlying structure of the conscientiousness and how conscientiousness predicts social environmental factors and health behaviors associated with health and longevity.

TL;DR: In this article, a principal components analysis of lexically derived trait adjectives was performed to investigate the lower-order factor structure of conscientiousness (N=1675), and a solution with eight substantive components fit the data best and showed good reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity.

TL;DR: The present research examined how conscientiousness, in combination with educational attainment and health-related behaviours, predicted self-reported physical health across adulthood and suggested conscientiousness predicts health through a diverse set of mechanisms including, but not limited to, educational attainmentand health- related behaviours.