caa a22 4500 467917183 CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-8427-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-8427-6 Neuroticism, Education and Self-Assessed Health in the General Population of the United States. Can Smoking Behaviour Explain the Associations? [Elektronische Daten] [Christiaan Monden, Gerbert Kraaykamp] In this study we investigate the interrelation between neuroticism, education, smoking and health. Two lines of research are brought together: one studying the relationship between neuroticism and health and the other studying the association between education and health. As lower educated people more often score high on neuroticism, we study the relationships of education and neuroticism with health simultaneously. Moreover, we hypothesize that smoking behaviour is a common explanatory factor in these associations. A 1996 US general population sample is employed to test the hypotheses. The associations between education and neuroticism on the one hand and self-assessed health on the other hand proved to be substantially smaller when education and neuroticism are mutually controlled for. Yet, the hypothesis that smoking behaviour provides an explanation for educational differences in health was only supported for men. Springer, 2005 education nationallicence inequality nationallicence neuroticism nationallicence self-assessed health nationallicence smoking nationallicence Monden Christiaan Department of Social Cultural Sciences, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, Tilburg, LE, The Netherlands aut Kraaykamp Gerbert Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, 6500, Nijmegen, HE, The Netherlands aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2(2006-09-01), 271-285 0303-8300 78:2<271 2006 78 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-8427-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-8427-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Monden Christiaan Department of Social Cultural Sciences, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000, Tilburg, LE, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kraaykamp Gerbert Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, 6500, Nijmegen, HE, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2(2006-09-01), 271-285 0303-8300 78:2<271 2006 78 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer