2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Large-scale prospective cohort study on the health effects of personality
| Project/Area Number |
13470086
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public health/Health science
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUBONO Yoshitaka Tohoku University, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor, 大学院・医学系研究科, 助教授 (00250746)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HOSOKAWA Toru Tohoku University, Graduate School of Education, Professor, 大学院・教育学研究科, 教授 (60091740)
FUKUDO Shin Tohoku University, Graduate School of Medicine, Professor, 大学院・医学系研究科, 教授 (80199249)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2002
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| Keywords | personality / character / coluorl study / epidemiology / cancer / cancer registry |
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| Research Abstract |
We examined the association between personality and risk of cancer and cardiovascular diseases in a population-based prospective cohort study. In 1990, 47,605 residents of Miyagi Prefecture in northern Japan responded to a Japanese version of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised Short Form. With follow-up through 2001, 1,663 cases of cancer incidence, 368 deaths from coronary heart disease, and 302 deaths from stroke were ascertained. We observed no significant association between any of the four personality subscales (neuroticism, extraversion/introversion, psychoticism, and lie) and the risk of cancer, coronary heart disease, or stroke. For instance. multivariate relative risk (95% confidence imterval) of total cancer for subjects with the highest quartile as compared with the lowest quartile was 1.2 (1.0-1.4) for neuroticism, 0.9 (0.7-1.1) for extraversion, 1.1 (0.9-1.3) for pshychoticism, and 0.9 (0.7-1.0) for lie. The results suggest that personality does not have substantial effects in the development of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
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