Physical Activity and Personality Development over Twenty Years: Evidence from Three Longitudinal Samples
Autor: | Antonio Terracciano, Martina Luchetti, Grégoire Bosselut, Angelina R. Sutin, Yannick Stephan |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Agreeableness
Longitudinal study Extraversion and introversion Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Personality development 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Conscientiousness Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Openness to experience Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Psychology General Psychology Disease burden media_common Demography |
Zdroj: | Journal of research in personality. 73 |
ISSN: | 0092-6566 |
Popis: | A physically inactive lifestyle is associated with maladaptive patterns of personality development over relatively short follow-up periods. The present study extends existing research by examining whether this association persists over 20 years. Participants (total N = 8,723) were drawn from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study Graduates and Siblings samples and the Midlife in the United States Study. Controlling for demographic factors and disease burden, baseline physical inactivity was related to steeper declines in conscientiousness in all three samples and a meta-analysis (β=-.06). The meta-analysis further showed that lower physical activity was associated with declines in openness (β=-.05), extraversion (β=-.03), and agreeableness (β=-.03). These findings provide evidence that a physically inactive lifestyle is associated with long-term detrimental personality trajectories. |
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