PERSONALITY AND HEALTHY AGING IN ADULTHOOD. NEW DIRECTIONS AND TECHNIQUES

Chapter 1. Integrating Personality and Relationship Science to Explain Physical and Mental Health (Hannah Brazeau)
Chapter 2. Aging with Purpose: Developmental Changes and Benefits of Purpose in Life Throughout the Lifespan (Gabrielle N. Pfund)
Chapter 3. Personality Disorders and Disordered Aging: Personality Pathology as Risk Factors for Unhealthy Aging (Patrick J. Cruitt)
Chapter 4. Affective Aging on Different Time-Scales (Marko Katana)
Chapter 5. Coordinated Data Analysis: A New Method for the Study of Personality and Health (Sara J. Weston)
Chapter 6. Using Ambulatory Assessments to Understand Personality-Health Associations (Joshua J. Jackson)
Chapter 7. Sounds of Healthy Aging: Assessing Everyday Social and Cognitive Activity from Ecologically Sampled Ambient Audio Data (Burcu Demiray)
Chapter 8. Exploring the Role of Mobility and Personality for Healthy Aging (Michelle Pasquale Fillekes)
Chapter 9. Promoting Cognitive, Physical, and Social Activities for Healthy Aging by Targeting Personality (Damaris Aschwanden)
Chapter 10. Personality and Cognitive Health in Aging (Brennan R. Payne)
Chapter 11. A Lifespan Perspective on the Interconnections between Personality, Health, and Optimal Aging (Daniel K. Mroczek).

This book highlights international efforts to better understand the role of individual differences in healthy aging by exploring new directions, methods, and questions within the field. The book considers how to measure personality and personality change during adulthood, the associations between personality and healthy aging outcomes over time, and the role of personality in building interventions to promote healthy aging.
The first section considers the value of personality constructs for healthy aging outcomes beyond the broad Big Five personality dimensions. It discusses the role of attachment, purpose, and affect, and also touches on the issue of psychopathology. The second section presents innovative assessment methods, research designs beyond classical longitudinal approaches, as well as sophisticated and integrative techniques for analyzing personality change processes. The third section raises new important questions, such as how interventionists from non-personality domains can incorporate personality processes in their intervention programs. It also discusses how different domains of individual functioning may interact in concert to predict healthy aging outcomes, as well as how more integrative lifespan models of healthy aging may advance research on personality and healthy aging. Overall, this book will spark interest and chart new directions for researchers, practitioners and interventionists in healthy aging, gerontology and applied fields.

Features
• Focusses on understanding the associations between personality and healthy aging in adulthood
• Provides insight on how to assess personality
• Discusses multiple aging outcomes that may be impacted by our personalities and related psychosocial variables