Editorial. Personality and Disease. New Directions in Modern Research

The present Editorial of the Special Issue titled "Personality and Disease: New Directions in Modern Research" comprises six highly multidisciplinary papers, covering different clinical and research areas on the associations between personality and diseases. Notably, three contributions (Cavicchioli et al., 2021; Durosini et al., 2021; Galli et al., 2021) have provided a theoretical overview of current knowledge derived from the scientific literature on the role of personality traits or syndromes in developing and maintaining various medical conditions (especially, oncological diseases, cardiovascular pathologies, overweight and obesity, chronic pain presentations). All the other contributions (Buratta et al., 2021; Lanzara et al., 2020; Mokhtar et al., 2020) have described and addressed the findings of empirical investigations on this specific Research Topic, discussing clinically meaningful implications and suggesting best practices for achieving successful intervention outcomes.