Dan Mroczek
Purdue University
Professor
Dan Mroczek's major interests are in adult development and aging, especially lifespan personality development and the relationship between personality and health in the adult years. One of the main findings from his research over the past few years is that there are considerable individual differences in personality and well-being trajectories over long periods of time (10 to 20 years). This means that not everyone shows the same pattern of personality or well-being change as we grow older. For example, some people show long term increases over time, while others show remarkable stability. Still others show major declines. He is interested in why people vary on these long-term trajectories and how it affects their physical health and longevity. He is also interested in the general association between personality and physical health. In this line of research, he has found that change in personality predicts mortality (Mroczek & Spiro, 2007), and that smoking mediates the association between personality and mortality (Mroczek, Spiro & Turiano, 2009). Additionally, he has a number of statistical and methodological interests such as longitudinal design, daily diary and experience sampling techniques, multilevel modeling (including growth-curve models), and proportional hazards models. Most of his research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in particular the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
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Email: dmroczek@purdue.edu
Homepage: http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/cdfs/About/directory/mroczek_daniel.html