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Personality as a cause of adverse life events
1Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders, University of New South Wales at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The element of chance and the role of the individual in causing negative life events was explored by examining the relationship between measures of personality, symptoms, and a number of demographic variables in a nonclinical population (n = 892). The results indicated that Eysenck's neuroticism was the best predictor of negative interpersonal life events. Symptoms added a negligible amount to the variance explained in the occurrence of life events. The well-established relationships between neuroticism and symptoms and life events and symptoms are discussed in the light of these findings.