Comprehensive meta-analysis of associations between temperament and character traits in Cloninger's psychobiological theory and mental disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore the relationship between temperament and character traits in Cloninger's psychobiological theory and mental disorders.Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted of five international databases for all articles published in English between January 1990 and April 2019 (PROSPERO-CRD42019133214). Owing to heterogeneity, pooled estimates of correlations for personality disorders and standardized mean differences for case-control studies related to other mental disorders were calculated using the random-effects method.

Results

The pooled effect sizes obtained from 149 studies showed that high harm avoidance (related to 22/24 diagnostic categories), low self-directedness (21/23), low cooperativeness (17/23), high self-transcendence (14/23), lo

SUBMITTER: Komasi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8743952 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature