Personality and Trauma: A Pathway to Health Status
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Behavioral and Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 2845
Special Issue Editor
Interests: health; global health; climate change’s psychological impact; religious coping
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Dear Colleagues,
Health is one of the most pressing and complex issues of our time; therefore, it is approached by different sciences in an attempt to find elucidative determinants of what good health means. The need for healthy communities raises the urgency of putting global health in perspective, from which one can think about their own health (the experience of COVID-19 illustrates this relationship between global health and individual health). If, on the one hand, there are macro issues (such as those of economic, financial, and social natures) that contribute to health perception and health behaviors, on the other hand, micro issues (such as personality and personal experience; namely, trauma) contribute decisively to the position concerning global health and individual health. There is evidence that personality influences health and health influences personality; additionally, they both change over the life course, suggesting that these are dynamic rather than static concepts [1]. In turn, the experience of trauma stimulates the body to produce adrenaline and cortisol; even unresolved traumatic experiences can stimulate these responses in non-threatening situations, and experiencing trauma can change a person's brain structure, contributing to physical and behavioral health problems [2]. The research question that arises is to know if there is a specific relationship between personality and trauma that constitutes a determinant of health perception and behavior, in addition to how this process occurs.
References
1. Hampson, S. E. Personality and health. Oxf. Res. Encycl. Psychology. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.121.
2. Subica, A. M.; Link, B. G. Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities. Soc. Sci. Med. 2022, 292, 114574.
Dr. Ângela Leite
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- health
- health perception
- health behavior
- personality
- trauma
