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Table 2.

Research Aims and Venues for Conscientiousness-Health Investigations

Aims

• Identify early pathways from conscientiousness to health protection

• Investigate life course co-development of conscientiousness and health-related behaviors

• Examine dynamic system of conscientiousness and health-related interventions

Venues

• Electronic health/medical records, forthcoming psychodiagnostic protocols (i.e., DSM-5)

• Inclusion in large ongoing panel studies (e.g., Nurses’ Health Studies)

• Initiatives at NIH (e.g., NIH Toolbox), CDC, private, and non-profit research organizations