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Personality and anxiety disorders.

Mina Brandes1, O Joseph Bienvenu

  • 1Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Meyer 115, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

Current Psychiatry Reports
|August 2, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Personality traits like high neuroticism are risk markers for anxiety disorders. These traits can be predisposing factors, consequences, or influenced by common genetic causes, impacting overall dysfunction.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Personality traits and anxiety disorders share a strong relationship.
  • Existing evidence explores the multifaceted connections between personality and anxiety.
  • Understanding this link is crucial for effective mental health treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review evidence on how personality traits relate to anxiety disorders.
  • To examine personality traits as predisposing factors, consequences, and etiologies of anxiety.
  • To explore the pathoplastic influence of personality on anxiety disorders.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review of existing evidence.
  • Analysis of the etiological pathways between personality and anxiety.
  • Synthesis of findings on risk, consequence, and developmental influences.

Main Results:

  • High neuroticism, low extraversion, and Cluster C personality traits are risk markers for anxiety disorders.
  • Remission from panic disorder correlates with personality trait normalization.
  • Early-life anxiety disorders can shape personality development.
  • Anxiety disorders and personality traits may share common genetic etiologies.
  • Extreme personality traits are associated with greater dysfunction in anxiety patients.

Conclusions:

  • Personality traits are significant risk indicators for anxiety disorders.
  • The relationship is bidirectional, with anxiety influencing personality development.
  • Shared genetic factors likely underlie both personality traits and anxiety disorders.
  • Personality extremes exacerbate dysfunction in individuals with anxiety disorders.

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