It is well established that personality traits are associated with anxiety and depressive
disorders in Western populations, but it is not known whether this is true also for people from …

Personality traits provide a description of individual emotional and cognitive processes that
modulate thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Few studies have investigated the relationship …

We describe in detail normal personality traits in persons with psychiatrist‐ascertained
anxiety and depressive disorders in a general population sample. We investigated Revised …

Although it is well established that personality traits of patients with mental disorder differ
significantly from the traits of other persons, differences in personality characteristics …

Background: In studies of both patients and high-risk subjects, particular patterns of
personality have been found to be associated with affective disorders. Neuroticism and …

Few studies have investigated the relationship of the personality dimensions of neuroticism
and extraversion to the symptoms of depression and anxiety in the general population. A …

Anxiety and depression have a relatively high correlation and strong comorbidity (Kessler,
Chiu, Demler, & Walters, 2005). In clinical settings, many individuals have both anxiety …

Methods The PDQ-4 plus diagnoses were scored using a two-stage process in which
students with questionnaire scores at or above the threshold level for at least one PD (82 …

Background: The purpose of this study was to explore the association of five factors
personality traits, as predictor variables, with the anxiety and depression as joint dependent …

Many studies have examined the relationship between personality and depressive
disorders. However, the findings have been heterogeneous and many gaps in current …