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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Personal Psychol. 2015;1(1):1–7.

Table 3.

Personality Predicting Earnings Lost due to Physical Health (PH), Mental Health (MH), Work Days Lost Due to PH & MH and Daily Income (Time 1).

Earnings Lost MH Days Lost MH Earnings Lost PH Days Lost PH Income

B SE β B SE β B SE β B SE β B SE β

Controls
 Age −.06 .05 −.02 −.001 .001 −.02 .14 .38 .01 −.003 .004 .02t .36 .09 .04***
 Sex 1.89 1.23 .02 −.04 .03 .02 13.90 9.72 .02 .12 .10 .02 −48.88 2.36 .24***
 Ed .15 .13 .01 −.01 .01 .03* 1.63 1.92 .01 −.07 .02 .05*** 11.66 .46 .38***
 Employed −1.00 .75 −.02 .04 .02 .03* −17.23 5.91 .04** .35 .06 .08*** −53.62 1.44 .42***
Personality
 Consc −2.26 1.41 −.02 −.07 .03 .03* −.33 11.08 .00 −.22 .11 .03* 15.50 2.69 .07***
 Agree 3.12 1.45 .04* .05 .03 .03 17.26 11.44 .03 .21 .12 .03t −18.98 2.77 .09***
 Neuro 2.20 .90 .03* .06 .02 .04** 1.32 7.10 .003 .15 .07 .03* .76 1.72 .01
 Open .18 1.33 .002 .04 .03 .02 13.87 10.49 .02 .26 .11 .04* 6.63 2.55 .03**
 Extra −1.85 1.32 −.02 −.03 .03 −.02 −23.25 10.37 .04* −.27 .10 .04* 7.02 2.51 .04**

R2 .004 .01 .003 .01 .41
N 5,749 5,752 5,735 5,752 5,505
*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001,

t

p<.10

Note: Ed= Education Level; Employed=Employment Status;

Consc=Conscientiousness; Agree=Agreeableness; Neuro=Neuroticism; Open=Openness; Extra=Extraversion