Facts about Conscientiousness

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   A 20-year longitudinal study by Kern and Friedman found that conscientiousness in childhood predicted higher income and wealth accumulation by age 32, independent of IQ or socioeconomic status.

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   Highly conscientious individuals demonstrate 50% better smoking cessation rates in clinical trials compared to those scoring low on this trait.

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   Conscientious individuals show 30% lower healthcare costs across their lifetime compared to their less conscientious peers, according to longitudinal research by Friedman and colleagues at UC Riverside.

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   In a 2012 study by Hampson and colleagues tracking 1,037 British children from birth into adulthood, childhood conscientiousness at age 8 predicted lower mortality risk by age 42.

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   The Big Five personality trait of conscientiousness correlates with a 27% increase in job performance across 600 occupational groups according to a 2001 meta-analysis by Roberts, Kuncel, Shiner, Caspi, and Goldberg.

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