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14 - Models of Physical Health and Personality

from Part III - Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Dietlinde Heilmayr  and
Howard S. Friedman
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Summary

Personality helps account for much of the variation in who stays well and who succumbs to illness. The idea that dispositions relate to health in important, systematic ways dates back to Galen, the Greek physician in the Roman Empire who proposed that bodily imbalances are associated with specific temperaments. For example, an excess of yellow bile – choler – was thought to produce cycles of excess anger, aggressive behavior and damage to internal organs (Friedman & Adler, 2011). Today, cycles of hormones, emotions, behaviors and health remain of keen interest but are informed by modern understandings of psychophysiology and personality.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 193 - 207
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Print publication year: 2020

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