The Relationship of Five-Factor Personality Traits, Dark Triad with Subjective and Objective Indicators of Physical Illness

Abstract

Proučavanje odnosa crta ličnosti i tjelesnog zdravlja može pomoći razumijeti obrasce ponašanja pojedinca koji su mogli dovesti do bolesti te koji pomažu u njenom održavanju. Istraživanja provedena unatrag 100-tinjak godina ukazala su na različite obrasce povezanosti širokog spektra crta ličnosti i zdravlja odnosno bolesti, a predloženo je i nekoliko modela njihovog odnosa. Cilj ovog istraživanja bio je ispitati odnos crta petofaktorskog modela i crta tamne trijade sa subjektivnim (percepcija tjelesnih simptoma, poželjna zdravstvena ponašanja) i objektivnim (broj bolesti i broj hospitalizacija u životu) kriterijima bolesti na uzorku od 637 ispitanika starijih od 39 godina. Ispitanici su dali odgovore na BFI, Mach-IV, NPI, SRP-III upitnike ličnosti, SHC upitnik subjektivnih zdravstvenih simptoma, upitnik zdravstvenih ponašanja te dali podatke o broju bolesti i broju hospitalizacija. Dobiveni rezultati pokazali su različite obrasce povezanosti crta ličnosti i zdravstvenih varijabli. Dob, neuroticizam i psihopatija se izdvajaju kao konzistentno značajni prediktori subjektivnih i objektivnih kriterija bolesti. Raspravljeni su efekti crta petofaktorskog modela i crta tamne trijade na zdravlje i rezultati su komentirani s obzirom na predložene modele odnosa osobina ličnosti i razvoja tjelesnih bolesti.Research on relationships between personality traits and physical health can be of great value in understanding risk and maintenance factors of physical illness. Several explanatory models of relationship between personality and health were suggested and last hundred years of research revealed various relationships between personality traits and health criteria. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of Big Five and Dark Triad personality traits with subjective (health complaints, health behaviors) and objective (number of disease and hospitalizations throughout a lifetime) health criteria on a sample of 637 participants older than 39 years. Participants completed BFI, Mach-IV, NPI, SRP-III personality questionnaires, Subjective Health Complaints questionnaire, health behavior questionnaire and gave data about disease numbers and hospitalization. Results suggested age, neuroticism and psychopahy predict both subjective and objective health criteria. Effects of Big Five and Dark Triad traits on health were discussed and results were commented with a note to relationship models between personality and health