The impact of neuroticism upon married bipolar patients

Citation
D. Carpenter et al., The impact of neuroticism upon married bipolar patients, J PERS DIS, 13(1), 1999, pp. 60-66
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS
ISSN journal
0885579X → ACNP
Volume
13
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
60 - 66
Database
ISI
SICI code
0885-579X(199921)13:1<60:TIONUM>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The NEO Personality Inventory was given to 33 married patients with bipolar disorder. Consistent with previous findings, patients with bipolar disorde r did not show an abnormal personality profile as a group. Extremely wide v ariation on all scales indicated that the group profile tells little about individual patients, Trait neuroticism robustly predicted psychiatric sympt oms at entry to the study when assessed retrospectively for the two years p rior to entry and when averaged over a year of treatment. Neuroticism also negatively predicted the self-confidence of the patients in this sample. Th e patients identified as outliers on neuroticism form a clinically difficul t group for whom the distinction between Axes I and II appears to be less m eaningful.