In high school putting a women next to me I would clam up, now I'll talk her ear off and find out everything about her and then get her phone number. We had a moderate economic status back then.
Extroversion, an energetic disposition, calmness and maturity were associated with a lower risk of dementia 50 years later.
Your personality in high school may help predict your risk of dementia decades later.
Researchers
reached this conclusion using a 150-item personality inventory given to
a national sample of teenagers in 1960. The survey assessed character
traits — sociability, calmness, empathy, maturity, conscientiousness,
self-confidence and others — using scores ranging from low to high. For
their study, in JAMA Psychiatry, scientists linked the scores of 82,232 of the test-takers to Medicare data on diagnoses of dementia from 2011 to 2013.
They
found that high extroversion, an energetic disposition, calmness and
maturity were associated with a lower risk of dementia an average of 54
years later, though the association did not hold for students with low
socioeconomic status.
Calmness and
maturity have been linked to lower levels of stress, which may help
explain the association. Lower socioeconomic status, which often
increases chronic stress, may negate the apparent benefits of those
personality traits.
“The study was not
set up to discern a causal link,” said the lead author, Benjamin P.
Chapman, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of
Rochester. “Most likely these traits lead to all kinds of other things
over 50 years that culminate in a diagnosis of dementia. We tried to
rule out as many other factors as possible, but our findings are
suggestive, and we don’t want to draw strong conclusions about
causation.”
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