Konceptualizacije odnosa između ličnosti i zdravstvenih ishoda.

In recent psychology literature very few plausible conceptions of the relations between personality and health outcomes have been proposed. It goes about four dominant theory models trying to explain the processes and mechanisms lying in the core of that complex relation. The models are based on the assumptions about the existence of physiological mechanisms (stress) in the background of relations between personality and health outcomes; about the existence of close links between personality and physical health derived from equivalent constitution predisposition; about the influence of the personality on health in which the risky/useful behaviour occurs as a mediator, respectively the active choice of the milieu or health risky situations; and about the existence of a connection between the personality and the so-called patient's behaviour as one of the health outcomes. Although the researchers obviously agree that there is not only one connection between the personality and an increased risk of falling sick, the multi dimensionality and multi directivity of such relations seems rather to be a rule, whereas the majority of researches in this field still try to check if a certain feature of personality is connected to a certain illness, a part of the illness development process or certain risky factors of that illness. That is to say that the existing draft researches are not set in the way they can detect a multiple connection or causality between tested variables, which results in the absence of an integral picture of the relations between personality and health outcomes. That is why the primary suggestion of this paper would be to direct the researchers to test the proposed models, as well as to try to integrate them into one broader model which needs to be tested. A better understanding of how and why the personality influences the health and the illness, namely who gets sick and why, would make it possible to develop more efficient illness prevention programmes and health promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]