Personality and Perceived Health in Spousal Caregivers of Patients with Lung Cancer: The Roles of Neuroticism and Extraversion

Table 2

Personality dimensions associated with good and poor perceived health.

SF-36 item	Perceived health	Neuroticism; M (SD)	Extraversion; M (SD)
“I seem to get sick a little easier than other people”	Good (n = 107)	16.8 (5.39)	28.1 (5.34)
	Poor (n = 5)	20.0 (5.57)	27.2 (6.14)
“I am as healthy as anybody I know”	Good (n = 88)	16.9 (5.23)	28.4 (4.73)
	Poor (n = 24)	16.9 (6.19)	27.1 (7.23)
“I expect my health to get worse”	Good (n = 99)	17.1 (5.37)	28.3 (5.44)
	Poor (n = 13)	15.6 (5.80)	26.2 (4.36)
“My health is excellent”	Good (n = 89)	16.3 (5.14)	28.7 (4.76)
	Poor (n = 23)	19.1 (6.00)	25.9 (6.86)

Note. Perceived health responses were dichotomized.