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Epidemiological Personology: The Unifying Role of Personality in Population‐Based Research on Problem Behaviors
Author(s) -
Krueger Robert F.,
Caspi Avshalom,
Moffitt Terrie E.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00123
Subject(s) - personality , psychology , epidemiology , public health , perspective (graphical) , population , mental health , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , environmental health , nursing , artificial intelligence , computer science
Epidemiological personology refers to a paradigm in which a developmental perspective on individual differences is paired with a population‐based sampling frame to yield insights about the role of personality in consequential social outcomes. We review our work in epidemiological personology, linking personality to diverse, problematic social outcomes: Mental disorders, health‐risk behaviors, and violence. We conclude that broad‐band personality measurement is both feasible and fruitful in large‐scale research on problem behaviors, and we call for increased collaboration between personality psychologists and researchers in fields such as public health, epidemiology, and sociology.