Delineating the Interplay of Personality Disorders and Health

摘要

The nexus of personality and health is a challenging and, at times, vexing issue in behavioral medicine. While the integration of psychiatric, psychological and psychoso-cial factors into healthcare delivery systems is becoming normative, the incorporation of personality factors into these system is often overlooked or poorly integrated into conceptualization of our examinations of health behaviors. Understanding and predicting health promoting and risky health behaviors has long been the province of public health, behavioral medicine, and health psychology. However, personality factors are rarely incorporated into health behavior paradigms. Personality can be dismissed as the "noise" in these equations, due to the relatively immutable nature of personality and the greater challenges in addressing personality variables in large-scale behavioral health interventions.