目次

1. A Brief Historical Overview on Links Between Personality and Health 2. How to Measure the Personality 3. Personality as Determinant of Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, Physical Activity, and Diet Preferences 4. Personality and Cardiovascular Disease 5. Personality and Type 2 Diabetes: An Overview of the Epidemiological Evidence 6. Personality and Dementia: Personality as Risk Factor or as Early Manifestation in Dementing Disorders? 7. Personality, Asthma, and Allergies 8. The Personality and Risk for Cancer 9. Personality and Social Relationships: As Thick as Thieves 10. Personality Genetics 11. The Enduring Appeal of Psychosocial Explanations of Physical Illness 12. What Mechanisms Explain the Links Between Personality and Health?