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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 3, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(3):602-603; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn062
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Personality and health inequality: inconclusive evidence for an indirect hypothesis

John Gallacher

Department of Psychology, University of Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 3XQ, UK. E-mail: gallacher@Cardiff.ac.uk

Accepted 4 March 2008

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Nabi et al.1 explore the ‘indirect selection’ hypothesis for health inequality, linking personality to relative all cause and cardiovascular mortality using data from the GAZEL study. There have been previous studies linking personality constructs to mortality2 and linking quasi-personality constructs to health inequality3 but none linking psychological status to relative mortality. For men, adjustment for personality factors reduced relative all cause mortality between 34% for education and 28% for income. Surprisingly, father's social class was not related to male mortality. For women the evidence favoured the null hypothesis. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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