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Quantitatively evaluate associations between higher-order personality traits from the Big Three and Big Five models and specific depressive, anxiety, and substance use disorders in adults.

August 30, 2010Psychological Bulletin

Linking “big” personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis.

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RKRoman KotovStony Brook School WGWakiza GámezUniversity of Iowa FSFrank SchmidtLeipzig University

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Meta-analysis reveals robust links between major personality traits and anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders in adults, indicating shared trait profiles across conditions.

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Quantitatively evaluate associations between higher-order personality traits from the Big Three and Big Five models and specific depressive, anxiety, and substance use disorders in adults.
Synthesized 175 studies published between 1980 and 2007 across 66 separate meta-analyses, yielding 851 effect sizes.
Sample sizes for individual analyses ranged from 1,076 to 75,229 participants.
Conducted moderator analyses comparing epidemiologic versus patient cohorts and Eysenck inventories versus NEO personality scales.
All diagnostic groups showed high neuroticism (mean Cohen's d = 1.65) and low conscientiousness (mean d = -1.01).
Low extraversion was common across multiple disorders, with the largest reductions observed in dysthymic disorder (d = -1.47) and social phobia (d = -1.31).
Substance use disorders exhibited a unique profile characterized by elevated disinhibition (d = 0.72) and disagreeableness alongside lower neuroticism, whereas specific phobia had weaker links across all traits.

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Kotov et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d77fbe3fae90fd6048f80f https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020327

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Meta-analysis reveals robust links between major personality traits and anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders in adults, indicating shared trait profiles across conditions.

Linking “big” personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis.

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