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'Life force' linked to body's ability to withstand stress
Date:6/17/2009

neuroticism, openness vs. closed-minded, agreeable vs. hostile, and conscientiousness vs. unreliability. These dimensions, known as the "Five Factor Model" of personality, served to organize hundreds of specific traits like "activity" for psychologists, similar to the way the Periodic Table organizes elements for physicists.

"Our study took the important first step of finding a strong association between one part of extroversion and a specific, stress-related, inflammatory chemical," said Benjamin Chapman, Ph.D., assistant professor within the Rochester Center for Mind-Body Research (RCMBR), part of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and lead author of the study. "The next step is to determine if one causes the other. If we knew the direction and mechanism of causality, and it were low dispositional activity causing inflammation, we could design treatments to help high-risk patients become more engaged in life as a defense against disease."

Some past studies had contended, and the current analysis agreed, that women and minorities have higher levels of IL-6 than white males on average. Women may be more vulnerable to stress because of hormonal differences and minorities because of factors like perceived racism, but those questions have yet to be fully answered. While these trends exist, variations within these large groups are so great that further risk markers are needed to better determine any given patient's actual risk. The current study looked whether particular personality traits, including low extraversion, were associated with IL-6 levels in a sample of 103 urban primary care patients aged 40 and older.

You Must Have Been a Calm Baby

According to landmark studies in the early 1990s, extraversion is a personality trait with three parts: a tendency toward happy thoughts, a desire to be around others and "dispositional energy," a sense of innate vigor or active engagement with
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Contact: Greg Williams
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