Personality, risky health behavior, and perceived susceptibility to health risks

Vollrath, M.; Knoch, D.; Cassano, L. (1999). Personality, risky health behavior, and perceived susceptibility to health risks. European journal of personality, 13(1), pp. 39-50. Wiley 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0984

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We examined the relations between personality (Five-Factor Model), risky health
behaviours, and perceptions of susceptibility to health risks among 683 university
students. The hypothesis was that personality would affect perceptions of susceptibility
to health risks in two ways: directly, irrespective of risky health behaviours, and
indirectly, through the effects of personality on risky health behaviours. The students
were surveyed about smoking, being drunk, drunk driving, risky sexual behaviour, and
perceptions of susceptibility to related health risks. In path-analytical models we found
the expected direct and indirect effects. The personality dimensions of Agreeableness and
Conscientiousness had negative direct effects on perceptions of susceptibility as well as
negative indirect effects through risky health behaviours. Neuroticism was the only
personality dimension to show positive direct effects on perceptions of susceptibility as
well as negative indirect effects.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Social Neuroscience and Social Psychology
UniBE Contributor:	Knoch, Daria
Subjects:	100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology
ISSN:	0890-2070
Publisher:	Wiley
Language:	English
Submitter:	Irène Gonce-Gyr
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2015 09:28
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:39
Publisher DOI:	10.1002/(SICI)1099-0984
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/62278