The Critical Thinking box ''Do Personality Factors Cause Disease?'' discusses the problems involved in answering this question and suggests that in order to disentangle the relationship between personality and health, researchers need to conduct carefully controlled:

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Prospective studies are the most appropriate method to investigate the relationship between personality and health. They involve following a group of people over time, measuring their personality traits and health outcomes, and controlling for other variables that could affect the relationship between the two. Retrospective studies, surveys, and interviews are more prone to biases and confounding variables, while correlational studies cannot establish causality.

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