Three Personality Characteristics Associated with Positive Health Appear to Increase

question 3

Multiple Choice

Three personality characteristics associated with positive health appear to increase across the lifespan. These are:

• A) extraversion; openness; agreeableness
• B) conscientiousness; emotional stability; agreeableness
• C) conscientiousness; openness; agreeableness
• D) extraversion; emotional stability; agreeableness
• E) extraversion; openness; conscientiousness

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Definitions:

Evidence-Based

The thorough, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.

Entire Institution

Refers to an entire organization or establishment in its entirety, including all its departments and personnel.

Confidentiality

Act of keeping information private or secret; in health care the nurse only sharesinformation about a patient with other nurses or health care providers who need to know private information about a patient to provide care for him or her; information can only beshared with the patient's consent.

Informed Consent

A legal and ethical requirement in healthcare where patients are provided with detailed information about a medical procedure or treatment before agreeing to it.