Anxiety and mood (대한불안의학회지)
- Volume 5 Issue 1
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- Pages.3-7
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- 2009
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- 2586-0151(pISSN)
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- 2586-0046(eISSN)
Relationship Between Personality Traits and Anxiety Disorders
성격특성과 불안장애의 관계
- Park, Su-Bin (Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center) ;
- Hong, Jin-Pyo (Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center)
- Received : 2009.04.09
- Accepted : 2009.04.10
- Published : 2009.04.30
Abstract
In this article, we review research on how normal personality traits and personality disorder traits may relate to anxiety disorders ; as predisposing factors, 2) as complications, 3) as pathoplastic factors, and 4) as manifestations of common underlying etiologies. Based on current literatures, we draw a conclusion as follows : 1) Normal personality traits such as high neuroticism and low extraversion and personality disorder traits, especially cluster C traits, are at least risk factors for certain anxiety disorders ; 2) Anxiety disorders in early life might influence a later development of personality disorder ; 3) Personality disorder traits may have negative influence on the outcome of anxiety disorders ; 4) Personality and anxiety disorders may be manifestations of common genetic and environmental etiologies.