Personality

Psilocybin-assisted therapy induced positive personality changes in adults with alcohol use disorder, which may help to improve long-term outcomes by limiting traits that encourage relapse such as impulsiveness, according to study results.

The presence of Type D personality among patients with CAD or their spouses was associated with elevated risk for cardiac events, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Among adults with hypothyroidism, 54.2% had a type D personality with high levels of negative feelings and social withdrawal, according to a recent study.

According to published results, undergraduate students who display experience-seeking, risk-seeking and impulsive personality traits are more likely have an early return to play after sports-related concussion.

Health education courses may change college students’ beliefs about stress if they address the nuances of certain personality traits, particularly neuroticism, according to study results published in American Journal of Health Education.

Researchers reported that optimism, compared with pessimism, is associated with a reduced risk for CV events and all-cause mortality.