The association between bodily anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Temperament and Character Inventory

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The association between bodily anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Temperament and Character Inventory. / Kristensen, Ann Suhl; Mortensen, Erik Lykke; Mors, Ole.

In: Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2009, p. 38-47.

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Kristensen, AS, Mortensen, EL & Mors, O 2009, 'The association between bodily anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Temperament and Character Inventory', Comprehensive Psychiatry, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.06.005

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Kristensen, A. S., Mortensen, E. L., & Mors, O. (2009). The association between bodily anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 50(1), 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.06.005

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Kristensen AS, Mortensen EL, Mors O. The association between bodily anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Temperament and Character Inventory. Comprehensive Psychiatry. 2009;50(1):38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2008.06.005

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Kristensen, Ann Suhl ; Mortensen, Erik Lykke ; Mors, Ole. / The association between bodily anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Temperament and Character Inventory. In: Comprehensive Psychiatry. 2009 ; Vol. 50, No. 1. pp. 38-47.

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abstract = "The association between anxiety disorders and different measures of personality has been extensively studied to further the understanding of etiology, course, and treatment, and to possibly prevent the development of anxiety disorders. We have proposed a hierarchical model of bodily anxiety symptoms with 1 second-order severity factor and 5 first-order factors: cardio-respiratory, gastro-intestinal, autonomic, vertigo, and tension. The aim of this study was to investigate whether personality traits were differentially related to distinct symptom subdimensions or exclusively related to the general severity factor. Structural equation modeling of data on 120 patients with a primary diagnosis of social phobia and 207 patients with a primary diagnosis of panic disorder was used to examine the association between anxiety symptom dimensions and the scales of the Temperament and Character Inventory and of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory. When both sets of personality measures were simultaneously modeled as predictors, the Revised NEO Personality Inventory scales, neuroticism and extraversion, remained significantly associated with the severity factor, whereas the association between the Temperament and Character Inventory dimensions, harm avoidance and novelty seeking, and the severity factor became nonsignificant. Harm avoidance was negatively associated with the vertigo first-order factor, whereas neuroticism was negatively associated with the cardio-respiratory first-order factor, indicating that personality factors may be differentially related to specific anxiety subdimensions.",
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