Table 2.
Associations Between Personality Traits and Episodic Memory
| Trait | Episodic Memory | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined | CERAD | Brave Man | Logical | ||||||
| Immediate | Delayed | Recognition | Immediate | Delayed | Immediate | Delayed | Recognition | ||
| Neuroticism | −.10* | −.08* | −.08* | −.07* | −.09* | −.05* | −.09* | −.07* | −.05* |
| Extraversion | .03 | .03 | .03 | .02 | .01 | .00 | .03 | .01 | .02 |
| Openness | .07* | .08* | .06* | .01 | .04 | .04 | .07* | .05* | .07* |
| Agreeableness | .06* | .06* | .04 | .04 | .04 | .03 | .04 | .03 | .06* |
| Conscientiousness | .06* | .07* | .06* | .05* | .03 | .04 | .04 | .04 | .03 |
| Sample size | 2817 | 2816 | 2803 | 2807 | 2807 | 2770 | 2790 | 2762 | 2756 |
Note. Coefficients are standardized beta coefficients from linear regression controlling for age, sex, race, ethnicity, education, and language of test administration
*p < .01