The role of personality in health care use: Results of a population-based longitudinal study in Germany.

OBJECTIVE:To determine the role of personality in health care use longitudinally. METHODS:Data were derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), a nationally representative, longitudinal cohort study of German households starting in 1984. Concentrating on the role of personality, we used da...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: André Hajek, Jens-Oliver Bock, Hans-Helmut König
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5528826?pdf=render