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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 5.

Concurrent and Longitudinal Models: Personality Traits Predicting Earnings Lost due to Physical Health (PH), Mental Health (MH), zeros excluded

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

B SE β B SE β B SE β B SE β

Controls
 Age −6.24 5.12 −.18 1.32 4.57 .014 −12.11 9.28 −.18 −15.77 5.05 .16**
 Sex −29.02 129.91 −.03 134.25 111.93 −.06 −452.06 215.77 .32* −350.09 133.09 .14**
 Ed 30.80 20.25 .23 44.91 21.72 .10* 3.98 40.99 .01 38.41 24.18 .08
 Employed −156.43 56.93 .40** −278.09 56.57 .24*** −134.78 106.55 −.18 −58.37 68.81 −.04
Personality
 Consc −26.44 118.82 −.04 92.97 123.86 .04 241.93 193.91 .18 201.68 144.12 .07
 Agree 224.14 158.95 .17 −63.02 140.87 −.03 182.14 231.19 .12 −287.54 148.40 .12t
 Neuro −26.31 96.63 −.04 −123.49 80.44 −.08 −22.03 125.92 −.02 37.83 93.92 .02
 Open −140.47 131.52 −.21 56.75 112.98 .03 −678.66 242.40 .48** 155.90 133.94 .07
 Extra −8.44 113.61 −.01 −68.85 106.40 −.04 279.27 194.41 .22 54.08 131.12 .03

R2 .13 .08 .10 .06
N 53 436 63 436
*

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