Personality trait predictors of bipolar disorder symptoms
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2009
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Quilty, Lena C
Sellbom, Martin
Tackett, Jennifer Lee
Bagby, R Michael
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Elsevier
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The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the personality predictors of bipolar disorder symptoms, conceptualized as one-dimensional (bipolarity) or two-dimensional (mania and depression). A psychiatric sample (N = 370; 45% women; mean age 39.50 years) completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -2. A model in which bipolar symptoms were represented as a single dimension provided a good fit to the data. This dimension was predicted by Neuroticism and (negative) Agreeableness. A model in which bipolar symptoms were represented as two separate dimensions of mania and depression also provided a good fit to the data. Depression was associated with Neuroticism and (negative) Extraversion, whereas mania was associated with Neuroticism, Extraversion and (negative) Agreeableness. Symptoms of bipolar disorder can be usefully understood in terms of two dimensions of mania and depression, which have distinct personality correlates.
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Keywords: adult; article; bipolar disorder; chi square test; controlled study; depression; extraversion; female; human; major clinical study; male; mania; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; neurosis; personality disorder; prediction; priority journal; psy Depression; Five Factor Model; Mania; MMPI-2; Personality; Trait
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