Study suggests people with neurotic personality traits do not enjoy growing older as much as peers, may need extra help

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 07:00 in Psychology & Sociology

While most adult Americans report feeling more cheerful, content and other positive emotions as they reach their middle and later years, a subset who have more neurotic personality traits do not share in that trend toward greater satisfaction with age, according to a recent analysis by psychology researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Purdue University.

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