Weston Sara J, Jackson Joshua J
Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States.
J Res Pers. 2018 Apr;73:27-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2017.10.005. Epub 2017 Oct 28.
The theory of healthy neuroticism, that neuroticism can impact health through both negative and positive pathways, often relies on descriptions of vigilance to illustrate beneficial effects. The current study is among the first to describe the relationship of neuroticism to body vigilance and test the degree to which this relationship impacts health. In an online participant panel (N = 1055), neuroticism was associated with one factor of vigilance: sensation awareness belief. This factor had a suppression effect on the relationship between neuroticism and healthy behavior, such that the effect of neuroticism through vigilance was healthy, whereas the direct effect was unhealthy. We discuss the implications of these findings and caution against using vigilance to explain the heterogeneity in neuroticism-health relationships.
健康神经质理论认为，神经质可通过消极和积极途径影响健康，该理论常借助对警觉性的描述来说明有益影响。本研究是首批描述神经质与身体警觉性之间关系并测试这种关系对健康影响程度的研究之一。在一个在线参与者小组（N = 1055）中，神经质与警觉性的一个因素相关：感觉意识信念。该因素对神经质与健康行为之间的关系具有抑制作用，即通过警觉性产生的神经质效应是有益健康的，而直接效应则是不利于健康的。我们讨论了这些发现的意义，并告诫不要用警觉性来解释神经质与健康关系中的异质性。
