TY - JOUR
T1 - Epidemiological personology
T2 - The unifying role of personality in population-based research on problem behaviors
AU - Krueger, Robert F.
AU - Caspi, Avshalom
AU - Moffitt, Terrie E.
PY - 2000/12
Y1 - 2000/12
N2 - 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 psy-chologists and researchers in fields such as public health, epidemiology, and sociology.
AB - 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 psy-chologists and researchers in fields such as public health, epidemiology, and sociology.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-6494.00123
DO - 10.1111/1467-6494.00123
M3 - Article
C2 - 11130741
AN - SCOPUS:0034544261
SN - 0022-3506
VL - 68
SP - 967
EP - 998
JO - Journal of personality
JF - Journal of personality
IS - 6
ER -