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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Focus (Am Psychiatr Publ). 2010 Spring;8(2):165–179. doi: 10.1176/foc.8.2.foc165

Table 2.

Personality Traits That Are Highly Likely to Be High (+) or Low (−) in Different Mental Disorders and States of Mental Health

Mental Disorder HA NS RD PS SD CO ST
Schizophrenia + − − ++
Mood Disorder
 Depression ++
 Bipolar ++ ++
Anxiety Disorder
 GAD, Panic ++
 OCD ++
 Social anxiety ++ + or −
Eating disorder
 Anorexia ++ ++
 Bulimia ++ ++ − − ++
Substance dependence ++ − −
Personality disorder
 OCPD + ++ − −
 Cluster A − − − − +
 Cluster B ++ − −
 Cluster C ++ − −
Mental order
 Positive emotionality ++ + ++
 Social well-being ++ ++
 Perceived health ++
 Well sibling of depressive ++
 Well sibling of schizophrenic ++ +
 Resilience to stress + + + + + +

HA, harm avoidance; NS, novelty seeking; RD, reward dependence; PS, persistence; SD, self-directedness; CO, cooperativeness; ST, self-transcendence; GAD, generalized anxiety disorder; OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder; OCPD, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.