Personality traits and physical functioning: a cross-sectional multimethod facet-level analysis.
Tiia KekäläinenAntonio TerraccianoSarianna SipiläKatja KokkoPublished in: European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity (2020)
Consistently across methods, older adults who scored higher on facets of extraversion and conscientiousness tended to be more active and outperformed peers on walking performance. Older adults who scored higher in the facets of openness and the excitement-seeking facet of extraversion had better walking performance but also overestimated their self-reported physical activity compared to the accelerometers.