Similar associations between personality dimensions and anxiety or depressive disorders in a population study of Turkish-Dutch, Moroccan-Dutch, and native Dutch subjects.

Autor: Schrier AC; Altrecht Institute for Mental Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.schrier@altrecht.nl, de Wit MA, Krol A, Fassaert TJ, Verhoeff AP, Kupka RW, Dekker J, Beekman AT
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of nervous and mental disease [J Nerv Ment Dis] 2013 May; Vol. 201 (5), pp. 421-8.
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31828e110d
Abstrakt: 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 non-Western cultures. In this study, we examined whether ethnicity moderates the association between personality dimensions and anxiety or depressive disorders or symptoms. In a random urban population sample, stratified by ethnicity, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, we interviewed 309 native Dutch subjects, 203 Turkish-Dutch subjects, and 170 Moroccan-Dutch subjects. Dimensions of personality were measured using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. Anxiety and depressive disorders and symptom levels were assessed with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised. The association between personality factors and disorders or symptoms of anxiety and depression was very similar in the three ethnic groups: all show the typical profile of high neuroticism and low extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
Databáze: MEDLINE