Normal personality traits and comorbidity among phobic, panic and major depressive disorders.

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High comorbidity among anxiety and depressive conditions is a consistent but not well-understood finding. The current study examines how normal personality traits relate to this comorbidity. In the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow-up Study, psychiatrists administered the full Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry to 320 subjects, all of whom completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. The disorders of interest were simple phobia, social phobia, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and major depression. Analyses were carried out with second-order generalized estimating equations. The unadjusted summary odds ratio (SOR - or weighted mean odds ratio) for all five disorders was 1.72 (95% confidence interval=1.21-2.46). Neuroticism, introversion, younger age, and female gender were all significant predictors of prevalence of disorders. After adjustment for the relationships between these personality and demographic predictors and prevalence, the association among disorders was much weaker (SOR=1.11, 95% CI=0.79-1.56). However, subjects with high extraversion had a SOR 213% as high (95% CI=102-444%) as those with low extraversion (1.60 vs. 0.75). Therefore, neuroticism and introversion are associated with increased comorbidity due to relationships in common with the prevalence of the different disorders. In contrast, extraversion is associated with increased comorbidity per se.

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Normal personality traits and comorbidity among phobic, panic and major depressive disorders. Journal Published:

PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, U.S. Gov't,

Journal: Psychiatry research

VOLUME: 102

Page Numbers: 73-85

Journal Abbreviation: Psychiatry Res

ISSN: 0165-1781

DAY: 10

MONTH: May

YEAR: 2001

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KEYWORDS: Psychiatric Status Rating Scales

MESH TERMS: psychology

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AFFILIATION: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (JHU), , Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. jbienven@mail.jhmi.edu

Country: Ireland

AGENCY: United States NIMH

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MEDLINETA: Psychiatry Res

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