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Tovrard a Multidimensional View of Personality and Health
Author(s) -
Bowers Kenneth S.
Publication year - 1987
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/j.1467-6494.1987.tb00440.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , social psychology , clinical psychology
Health status has in effect become an external cntenon for vanous personality traits It seems unlikely, however, that a unidimensional approach to personality actually will be productive, even when something as concrete as physical health serves as a cntenon vanable Instead, the benefits of a more multidimensional, contextualized approach to the prediction of health status are emphasized Additional comments concern the distinction between co‐occurrence and correlation of two vanables, some ambiguities regarding the appropriate criterion variables for health psychology, and some logistical issues in the domain of personality and health psychology