Personality Predicts Mortality Risk: An Integrative Data Analysis of 15 International Longitudinal Studies.

•Neuroticism is associated with higher risk of mortality.•Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness are associated with lower mortality.•Smoking has a small mediating effect on the neuroticism-mortality association.•These effects are consistent across 15 long term longitudinal studies.•Baseline age and country-of-origin partially explain heterogeneity in effects.