{"title":"Physical activity and personality change in people with chronic respiratory diseases: Evidence from two longitudinal samples","authors":"Sébastien Kuss , Nelly Heraud , Pauline Caille , Yannick Stephan , Brice Canada","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113389","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lower physical activity in people with chronic respiratory diseases is related to detrimental health outcomes. However, no study has investigated the moderating role of physical activity on personality change in this population. This study aimed to fill this gap by examining the association between physical activity and personality change in people with chronic respiratory diseases. Participants (<em>N</em> = 2253; age range: 24–97) were drawn from two US longitudinal samples with multiple self-report measures of personality and physical activity collected over a follow-up period ranging from 12 to 18 years. Controlling for demographic factors, a random-effects meta-analysis showed that overall higher physical activity during follow-up was related to smaller declines in extraversion and conscientiousness. There was no association with changes in neuroticism, openness to experience and agreeableness. These findings highlight that physical activity in individuals with chronic respiratory diseases predicts individual differences in personality trait change, and may contribute to more favorable trajectories, which could promote better health outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"247 ","pages":"Article 113389"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Personality and Individual Differences","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886925003514","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Lower physical activity in people with chronic respiratory diseases is related to detrimental health outcomes. However, no study has investigated the moderating role of physical activity on personality change in this population. This study aimed to fill this gap by examining the association between physical activity and personality change in people with chronic respiratory diseases. Participants (N = 2253; age range: 24–97) were drawn from two US longitudinal samples with multiple self-report measures of personality and physical activity collected over a follow-up period ranging from 12 to 18 years. Controlling for demographic factors, a random-effects meta-analysis showed that overall higher physical activity during follow-up was related to smaller declines in extraversion and conscientiousness. There was no association with changes in neuroticism, openness to experience and agreeableness. These findings highlight that physical activity in individuals with chronic respiratory diseases predicts individual differences in personality trait change, and may contribute to more favorable trajectories, which could promote better health outcomes.
期刊介绍:
Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.