The impact of neuroticism upon married bipolar patients. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The NEO Personality Inventory was given to 33 married patients with bipolar disorder. Consistent with previous findings, patients with bipolar disorder did not show an abnormal personality profile as a group. Extremely wide variation on all scales indicated that the group profile tells little about individual patients. Trait neuroticism robustly predicted psychiatric symptoms at entry to the study when assessed retrospectively for the two years prior to entry and when averaged over a year of treatment. Neuroticism also negatively predicted the self-confidence of the patients in this sample. The patients identified as outliers on neuroticism form a clinically difficult group for whom the distinction between Axes I and II appears to be less meaningful.

publication date

  • January 1, 1999

Research

keywords

  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Marriage
  • Neurotic Disorders
  • Personality Inventory

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0032950362

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1521/pedi.1999.13.1.60

PubMed ID

  • 10228927

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 13

issue

  • 1