Open AccessConscientiousness and Cardiometabolic Risk: A Test of the Health Behavior Model of Personality Using Structural Equation Modeling
Author(s) -
Mark Thomas,
Karen Duggan,
Thomas W. Kamarck,
Aidan G.C. Wright,
Matthew F. Muldoon,
Stephen B. Manuck
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of behavioral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.701
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1532-4796
pISSN - 0883-6612
DOI - 10.1093/abm/kaab027
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , confirmatory factor analysis , structural equation modeling , personality , medicine , psychology , clinical psychology , big five personality traits , extraversion and introversion , social psychology , statistics , mathematics
High trait conscientiousness is associated with lower cardiometabolic risk, and health behaviors are a putative but relatively untested pathway that may explain this association.