Table 4.

Areas under the receiver operating characteristics curves (AUC) and their 95% confidence interval (CI), cutoff points, sensitivities and specificities of personality traits for psychological disorders by gender

Personality traits	Stress				Anxiety				Depression
	AUC (95% CI)	Cutoff point	Sensitivity	Specificity	AUC (95% CI)	Cutoff point	Sensitivity	Specificity	AUC (95% CI)	Cutoff point	Sensitivity	Specificity
Neuroticism
Men	0.826 (0.804–0.851)*	5.21	74%	79%	0.864 (0.838–0.890)*	5.22	78%	80%	0.833 (0.821–0.851)*	5.20	75%	77%
Women	0.839 (0.821–0.856)*	5.22	74%	79%	0.854 (0.836–0.873)*	5.23	78%	78%	0.828 (0.812–0.845)*	5.21	74%	77%
Extraversion
Men	0.789 (0.764–0.814)*	5.28	71%	72%	0.743 (0.707–0.779)*	5.26	72%	67%	0.765 (0.740–0.790)*	5.28	72%	68%
Women	0.766 (0.746–0.787)*	5.26	72%	67%	0.724 (0.699–0.750)*	5.25	73%	58%	0.741 (0.721–0.761)*	5.26	73%	61%
Agreeableness
Men	0.565 (0.531–0.598)*	5.22	67%	46%	0.535 (0.492–0.578)*	5.21	74%	31%	0.570 (0.540–0.599)*	5.22	67%	44%
Women	0.547 (0.522–0.572)*	5.22	70%	38%	0.544 (0.515–0.573)**	5.22	69%	38%	0.570 (0.547–0.593)*	5.22	71%	39%
Openness
Men	0.686 (0.654–0.716)*	5.30	73%	54%	0.700 (0.662–0.738)*	5.28	71%	59%	0.691 (0.664–0.719)*	5.29	67%	61%
Women	0.650 (0.627–0.674)*	5.28	67%	56%	0.668 (0.642–0.695)*	5.29	72%	53%	0.570 (0.638–0.660)*	5.30	69%	55%
Conscientiousness
Men	0.706 (0.677–0.735)*	5.34	70%	58%	0.662 (0.619–0.704)*	5.33	74%	52%	0.677 (0.694–0.706)*	5.34	71%	54%
Women	0.664 (0.541–0.688)*	5.34			0.624 (0.596–0.653)*	5.34	69%	50%	0.631 (0.609–0.654)*	5.34	73%	47%

^*P < .001;

^**P < .05.