High school personality traits and 48-year all-cause mortality risk: results from a national sample of 26 845 baby boomers

It is unclear if adolescent personality predicts mortality into late life, independent of adolescent socioeconomic status (SES).Over 26 000 members of Project Talent, a US population cohort of high school students, completed a survey including 10 personality scales and SES in 1960. Multi-source mortality follow-up obtained vital status data through an average 48-year period ending in 2009. Cox proportional hazard models examined the relative...