Relationship between personality and psychopathology in a longitudinal community study: A test of the predisposition model

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1693-1705

  Hengartner, M P ^a   Ajdacic Gross, V ^b   Wyss, C ^b   Angst, J ^b   Rossler W ^b,c  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aetiopathology; epidemiology; neuroticism; personality; psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTICISM; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961206172     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291716000210     Document Type: Article

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