Sensitization or inoculation: Investigating the effects of early adversity on personality traits and stress experiences in adulthood
Fig 4
a & b. The effects of early adversity on neuroticism after controlling for adulthood stressors exposure in the HRS and the MIDUS samples. In HRS, adulthood stressors exposure included traumatic events and stressful life events. Traumatic events included experiences of disasters, physical attack, and death or illness of close others. Stressful life events included measures of events such as work and family/household related stressful experiences. In MIDUS, adulthood stressors exposure included measures related to job, family, financial, and other aspects of traumatic experiences in life. N = Neuroticism.