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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2014 Mar;106(3):484–498. doi: 10.1037/a0035687

Table 9. Association between Age-32 Staff Ratings of Study Member Personality and Age-38 Poor Health.

Receptionist Ratings of Personality
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Conscientiousness
Openness-to-Experience
IRR [95% CI] pvalue IRR [95% CI] pvalue IRR [95% CI] pvalue IRR [95% CI] pvalue IRR [95% CI] pvalue
Model 1 Bivariate Model 0.95 [0.90 - 0.99] 0.041 0.97 [0.92 - 1.02] 0.238 1.05 [0.99 - 1.11] 0.105 0.93 [0.88 - 0.97] 0.001 0.88 [0.84 - 0.92] <0.001
Model 2 Controlling for Health at 26 0.96 [0.91 - 1.00] 0.076 0.95 [0.90 - 0.99] 0.049 1.05 [1.00 - 1.11] 0.073 0.93 [0.89 - 0.97] 0.001 0.90 [0.86 - 0.94] <0.001
Nurse Ratings of Personality
Model 1 Bivariate Model 0.94 [0.89 - 0.99] 0.016 1.01 [0.96 - 1.06] 0.688 1.04 [0.99 - 1.10] 0.122 0.94 [0.89 - 0.99] 0.014 0.88 [0.83 - 0.93] <0.001
Model 2 Controlling for Health at 26 0.96 [0.92 - 1.01] 0.114 0.99 [0.95 - 1.04] 0.805 1.05 [1.00 - 1.10] 0.045 0.94 [0.89 - 0.99] 0.011 0.91 [0.87 - 0.96] <0.001

All analyses controlled for sex. Values in bold are significant at the level p<0.05.