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Personality and Family History of Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Robert Taylor Segraves
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Personality structure has been linked with cancer, heart disease, and duodenal ulceration. Eysenck (1965) hypothesized that the association of personality with these diseases is the result of an association between the genetic factors influencing personality predisposition and disease susceptibility. As briefly discussed by the present author elsewhere (Segraves, 1970), Eysenck's hypothesis seems tenable, since both these personality dimensions and these diseases have been shown to have hereditary components and to be related to bodily habitus in analogous ways.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 549 , August 1971 , pp. 197 - 198
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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