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This Is The Healthiest Personality Type, According To Science

Where do you sit on the scale? - by Lucy Bode
  • 04 Dec 2018
This Is The Healthiest Personality Type, According To Science

Are you friendly, self-assured and generally optimistic? Then congrats friend, coz as far as this new study is concerned, your personality is pretty darn desirable.

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A team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, consulted over 200 psychologists and collected data from more than 3,000 people to identify what basic traits make someone psychologically well-adjusted. Their work was based on the ‘big five:’ neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. They also used a personality system called the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, which outlines 30 subcategories of traits listed above.

Their findings?

Those considered to have the ‘healthiest’ personalities showed high-levels of self-esteem, optimism, a clear self-view and good self-regulation skills. They also demonstrated they were non-aggressive, unlikely to exploit others, self-sufficient and found it easy to resist impulses and stay focussed.

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“The psychologically healthy person can be characterised as capable to experience and express emotions, straightforward, warm, friendly, genuine, confident in their own abilities, emotionally stable and fairly resilient to stress,” the study’s lead author, Weibke Blieidorn added.  

Wanna know where you sit on the scale? Take this quiz to find out.

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Lucy is Women Health’s digital editor, social media specialist and the go-to girl for all things holistic wellness. Her background as a journalist and passion for food, fitness and integrative medicine has led her to write for some of Australia’s leading publications over the course of her career.

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