title: [Personality and health].
abstract: There are several scientific approaches and types of contribution which suggest themselves in the personality-health interface: 1. Theoretical reflections on a level of abstraction akin to that of philosophy; 2. work drawing its inspiration from research investigating the normal functioning of man's "ability" or "competence to act"; 3. empirical research determining the psychological characteristics of healthy individuals (mostly on the basis of a criterion group comparison between healthy and sick individuals); 4. elaboration and empirical validation of personality sub-schemes (such as imparting meaning to life, sense of control); 5. independent health psychology approaches to theories of health, models of health behaviour, health-related personality models and personality traits as health-securing factors. What remains to be developed is a "differential health psychology of the concrete individual", which might the way for prophylactic health promotion oriented towards the norm of individuality.
authors: Sektion Psychologie der Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Schröder
mesh_terms: D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007389:Internal-External Control; D010551:Personality; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept
vernacular_title: Persönlichkeit und Gesundheit.