PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT META-ANALYSIS OF 10 COHORT STUDIES.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personality is suggested to be a major risk factor for depression but large-scale individual participant meta-analyses on this topic are lacking.

Method

Data from 10 prospective community cohort studies with 117,899 participants (mean age 49.0 years; 54.7% women) were pooled for individual participant meta-analysis to determine the association between personality traits of the five-factor model and risk of depressive symptoms.

Results

In cross-sectional analysis, low extraversion (pooled standardized regression coefficient (B) = -.08; 95% confidence interval = -0.11, -0.04), high neuroticism (B = .39; 0.32, 0.45), and low conscientiousness (B = -.09; -0.10, -0.06) were associated with depressive symptoms. Similar associations were observed in longitudinal a

SUBMITTER: Hakulinen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4605994 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature