Personality Change During Depression Treatment
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- 1 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 66 (12) , 1322-1330
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.166
Abstract
Neuroticism and extraversion are 2 of the 5 primary personality dimensions in the Five-Factor Model of Personality.1-3 Neuroticism refers to a tendency to experience negative emotions and emotional instability; extraversion encompasses social extraversion, dominance, and a tendency to experience positive emotions.1-3 Neuroticism and extraversion are largely independent constructs, as evidenced by correlations between them of −0.28 and −0.38 in 2 normative samples.4Keywords
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