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THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS
Personality pathology has been tied to mental and physical health in older adulthood. Less is known regarding the combined impact of personality and the doctor-patient relationship on mental health outcomes. This study examined relationships between personality, mood, and trust in physicians. Partic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6844900/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.578 |
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description | Personality pathology has been tied to mental and physical health in older adulthood. Less is known regarding the combined impact of personality and the doctor-patient relationship on mental health outcomes. This study examined relationships between personality, mood, and trust in physicians. Participants (N=170) were a sample of primary care older adults ages 60-99 (M = 70.73, SD = 7.054) who completed self-report measures of personality traits (NEO-FFI), processes (IIP-PD-25), depression (GDS-30; PHQ-9), social adjustment (SAS-SR) and trust in one’s physician (GTIP). Medical burden data (CIRS) were retrieved from medical records. After adjusting for relevant covariates such as age, perceived health, cumulative illness burden, and income security there were several significant predictive relationships. In combined models more neuroticism (NEO-N, ß = .082, p < .000) and lower trust (GTIP, ß = -.025, p = .014) but not agreeableness (NEO-A, ß = -.006) or interpersonal problems (IIP-25, ß = .254) predicted depression. In combined models, higher neuroticism (NEO-N, ß = .018, p < .000) and interpersonal problems (IIP-25, ß = .186, p = .002) but not agreeableness (NEO-A, ß = -.003) or trust (GTIP, ß = -.002) predicted social adjustment. The results are consistent with previous findings that neuroticism predicts both depression and social adjustment in older adults. In addition, lower trust augmented neuroticism to predict depression. Results suggest that apart from general personality risk factors, situational personality processes such as trust in physicians may affect mood state, whereas personality processes such as interpersonal problems contribute to longer term functional impairment. |
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spelling | pubmed-68449002019-11-21 THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS Atlas, Lauren S Zweig, Richard Innov Aging Session 915 (Poster) Personality pathology has been tied to mental and physical health in older adulthood. Less is known regarding the combined impact of personality and the doctor-patient relationship on mental health outcomes. This study examined relationships between personality, mood, and trust in physicians. Participants (N=170) were a sample of primary care older adults ages 60-99 (M = 70.73, SD = 7.054) who completed self-report measures of personality traits (NEO-FFI), processes (IIP-PD-25), depression (GDS-30; PHQ-9), social adjustment (SAS-SR) and trust in one’s physician (GTIP). Medical burden data (CIRS) were retrieved from medical records. After adjusting for relevant covariates such as age, perceived health, cumulative illness burden, and income security there were several significant predictive relationships. In combined models more neuroticism (NEO-N, ß = .082, p < .000) and lower trust (GTIP, ß = -.025, p = .014) but not agreeableness (NEO-A, ß = -.006) or interpersonal problems (IIP-25, ß = .254) predicted depression. In combined models, higher neuroticism (NEO-N, ß = .018, p < .000) and interpersonal problems (IIP-25, ß = .186, p = .002) but not agreeableness (NEO-A, ß = -.003) or trust (GTIP, ß = -.002) predicted social adjustment. The results are consistent with previous findings that neuroticism predicts both depression and social adjustment in older adults. In addition, lower trust augmented neuroticism to predict depression. Results suggest that apart from general personality risk factors, situational personality processes such as trust in physicians may affect mood state, whereas personality processes such as interpersonal problems contribute to longer term functional impairment. Oxford University Press 2019-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6844900/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.578 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Session 915 (Poster) Atlas, Lauren S Zweig, Richard THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS |
title | THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS |
title_full | THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS |
title_fullStr | THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS |
title_full_unstemmed | THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS |
title_short | THE DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY, MOOD, AND FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS |
title_sort | doctor-patient relationship, personality, mood, and functioning in older adults |
topic | Session 915 (Poster) |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6844900/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.578 |
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