Citation

Krueger RF, Caspi A, Moffitt TE. J. Pers. 2000; 68(6): 967-998.

Affiliation

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. Robert.Krueger-1@tc.umn.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11130741

Abstract

Epidemiological personology refers to a paradigm in which a developmental perspective on individual differences is paired with a population-based sampling frame to yield insights about the role of personality in consequential social outcomes. We review our work in epidemiological personology, linking personality to diverse, problematic social outcomes: Mental disorders, health-risk behaviors, and violence. We conclude that broad-band personality measurement is both feasible and fruitful in large-scale research on problem behaviors, and we call for increased collaboration between personality psychologists and researchers in fields such as public health, epidemiology, and sociology.

Language: en