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Personality traits and cancer survival: a Danish cohort study
- Source :
- British Journal of Cancer
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- We conducted a population-based prospective cohort study in Denmark to investigate associations between the personality traits and cancer survival. Between 1976 and 1977, 1020 residents of the Copenhagen County completed a questionnaire eliciting information on personality traits and various health habits. The personality traits extraversion and neuroticism were measured using the short form of the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Follow-up in the Danish Cancer Registry for 1976-2002 revealed 189 incidents of primary cancer and follow-up for death from the date of the cancer diagnosis until 2005 revealed 82 deaths from all-cause in this group. A Cox proportional-hazards model was used to estimate the hazard ratios (HRs) of death from all-cause according to extraversion and neuroticism adjusting for potential confounding factors. A significant association was found between neuroticism and risk of death (HR, 2.3 (95% CI=1.1-4.7); Linear trend P=0.04) but not between extraversion and risk of death (HR, 0.9 (0.4-1.7); Linear trend P=0.34). Similar results were found when using cancer-related death. Stratification by gender revealed a strong positive association between neuroticism and the risk of death among women (Linear trend P=0.03). This study showed that neuroticism is negatively [corrected] associated with cancer survival. Further research on neuroticism and cancer survival is needed.
- Subjects :
- Male
Risk
Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurotic Disorders
Personality Inventory
media_common.quotation_subject
Denmark
Health Behavior
Comorbidity
Personality Assessment
Cohort Studies
Habits
Age Distribution
Neoplasms
mental disorders
Clinical Studies
medicine
Personality
Humans
Prospective Studies
neuroticism
Big Five personality traits
Sex Distribution
Psychiatry
Prospective cohort study
cancer survival
Danish
media_common
Proportional Hazards Models
prospective cohort study
Extraversion and introversion
business.industry
Middle Aged
Corrigenda
Neuroticism
Survival Analysis
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
Cancer registry
Oncology
extraversion
Multivariate Analysis
Female
Personality Assessment Inventory
business
Demography
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00070920
- Volume :
- 95
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British journal of cancer
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....00f3b3a5d59de2f5aebdb83a3da26367