title: Does the interpersonally sensitive disposition advance research on personality and health? Comment on Marin and Miller (2013).
abstract: Marin and Miller (2013) have proposed the interpersonally sensitive disposition as an integrative model of personality characteristics affecting physical health. The model has considerable heuristic value and applied potential, and the related research is discussed with thoughtful attention to long-standing challenges and limitations in research on personality and health. However, their conclusions about the association of interpersonal sensitivity and subsequent health may be premature and overstated. The agenda for future research they propose is valuable, and in addition to the important epidemiologic and psychobiologic studies they describe, the essential research on the measurement of interpersonal sensitivity and its association with other personality and social-environmental risk factors will be best advanced through application of concepts and methods in current personality science and related interpersonal approaches.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah.
authors.forename: Timothy W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D010551:Personality