{"id":86,"date":"2017-09-05T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/?p=86"},"modified":"2018-01-12T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:21:25","slug":"chapter-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2017\/09\/05\/chapter-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to read that conscientiousness was the greatest personality predictor of long life, both in childhood and adulthood. After reading that this personality type is less likely to engage in risky behaviors, the conclusion seemed more logical to me. However, I was surprised because this personality seems to be associated with stress and worry to me, which I assumed is harmful to health. I would have assumed that carefree and more social individuals would live longer, as they would be surrounded by others and be less stressed. Although after reading this chapter, and the segment about the relationship between conscientiousness and chronic disease, this finding seems like it should have been obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to read that conscientiousness was the greatest personality predictor of long life, both in childhood and adulthood. After reading that this personality type is less likely to engage in risky behaviors, the conclusion seemed more logical to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/2017\/09\/05\/chapter-2-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65925,59091],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-2","category-fall-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/healthpsych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}