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acceptable levels of validity and have been used by researchers and practitioners to study human behavior
in a wide range of settings.
This chapter summarized personality assessments that may be useful in understanding how individual
influences interact with workplace factors in contributing to discomfort and MSD risk. The study of per-
sonality in occupational settings is not new, but the focus has traditionally been on improving communi-
cation among coworkers or assisting individuals to better understand themselves and their actions. Some
recent research highlighted here has studied personality in terms of the possibility that a “mind-body”
injury pathway exists. In other words, it may be that individuals' personalities influence how they
respond to the physical and psychosocial demands of their workplace. This may translate to the creation
of physical symptoms (e.g., increased muscle activity, more joint loading) that, cumulatively, lead to pain
or injury.
This chapter has also made clear the fact that much work still remains in understanding the complex-
ities of MSD causation. Finally, it suggests that new discoveries may be made by integrating knowledge of
human behavior and individuals' perceptions of their workplace with the actual, measurable workplace
factors that have been more commonly studied.
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