Table 2. Results of the associations between personality traits and blood lipid levels.

	Cholesterol (mg/dL)						Triglyceride (mg/dL)
Personality traits	Total Cholesterol		HDL		Derived LDL
	β a	P	β a	P	β a	P	β a	P
Factor-levels
Neuroticism	−0.023	0.324	−0.053	0.024 *	0.002	0.920	−0.009	0.696
Extraversion	−0.007	0.758	0.034	0.139	−0.011	0.643	−0.046	0.040 *
Openness	−0.024	0.311	0.030	0.189	−0.022	0.348	−0.059	0.009 **
Agreeableness	0.010	0.663	0.040	0.081	−0.009	0.705	0.003	0.891
Conscientiousness	−0.002	0.925	0.018	0.425	−0.020	0.405	0.022	0.321
Facet-levels
Angry Hostility (N2)	−0.037	0.115	−0.051	0.027 *	−0.017	0.480	−0.004	0.843
Self-consciousness (N4)	−0.030	0.208	−0.052	0.024 *	−0.008	0.726	0.000	0.986
Vulnerability to Stress (N6)	−0.037	0.124	−0.064	0.005 **	−0.007	0.764	−0.011	0.618
Activity (E4)	0.009	0.695	0.057	0.012 *	−0.001	0.969	−0.050	0.027 *
Positive Emotion (E6)	−0.006	0.790	0.043	0.063	−0.011	0.635	−0.054	0.017 *
Aesthetics (O2)	−0.031	0.190	0.017	0.456	−0.026	0.258	−0.050	0.024 *
Actions (O4)	−0.027	0.250	0.040	0.080	−0.025	0.290	−0.084	0.000 **
Straightforwardness (A2)	0.003	0.897	0.052	0.028 *	−0.018	0.456	−0.012	0.615
Deliberation (C6)	−0.017	0.486	−0.004	0.852	−0.032	0.167	0.048	0.031 *

Note. N = 1701.

^aStandardized regression coefficients adjusted with age, BMI, systolic blood pressure, current smoking status, and drinking status.

*P<0.05, **P<0.01. Significant results are bolded.