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Exploring the Relationship between Patients' Personality Traits, Social Encouragement and Recovery

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Background: The health behavior reflected through patients' recovery determines the actions and attitudes of such individuals to manage their health-related concerns. However, like other factors, personality traits like Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism would greatly support recovering from any disease the patients suffer. Methods: Covering these personality domains, this research applies an empirical investigation of the role of personality traits and social support for recovering patients from different types of diseases in the Chinese region. An up-to-mark methodological context named covariance-based structural equation modeling technique was selected for the data being collected using the self-administered among the patients struggling from the recovery of the different diseases in Guangdong, China, having many hospitals and health-related units. Results: The study, however, through the CB-SEM algorithm, shows that the lowest factor loadings/weights exist for the Openness, hence deleted from the model. However, out of the remaining personality traits, the results show that both Agreeableness and Conscientiousness also improve the patients' recovery. Conclusion: Nevertheless, the study does not achieve significant evidence in favor of social support for the patients' recovery, yet policy suggestions have been provided.

Keywords: HEALTH BEHAVIOR; PATIENTS' RECOVERY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SOCIAL SUPPORT

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: College of Health Industry, Guangdong Open University, Guangzhou, Guangdong ,510000, China 2: Department of Health Sociology, School of Humanities and Management, Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523808, China 3: Dongkeng Hospital, Dongguan City, Dongguan, Guangdong, 523451, China 4: College of Health Industry, Guangdong Open University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China

Publication date: October 1, 2024

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  • The American Journal of Health Behavior seeks to improve the quality of life through multidisciplinary health efforts in fostering a better understanding of the multidimensional nature of both individuals and social systems as they relate to health behaviors.

    The Journal aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of personal attributes, personality characteristics, behavior patterns, social structure, and processes on health maintenance, health restoration, and health improvement; to disseminate knowledge of holistic, multidisciplinary approaches to designing and implementing effective health programs; and to showcase health behavior analysis skills that have been proven to affect health improvement and recovery.

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