The potential protective benefit of personality on subjective cognitive decline related worry: Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

Subjective cognitive decline (SCD), a self‐reported decline in cognition, may be a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, SCD‐related worry has been implicated in predicting the progression from SCD to further cognitive decline. Certain personality traits have been linked to cognitive health (i.e., conscientiousness, emotional‐stability, and openness to experience), but little is known about the association between personality traits and worry related to perceived cognitive decline.