Voracek Martin
Department of Basic Psychological Research, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, Rm 03-46, A-1010 Vienna, Austria.
Percept Mot Skills. 2009 Aug;109(1):208-12. doi: 10.2466/PMS.109.1.208-212.
Partly replicating findings from several cross-national studies (of Lester and of Voracek) on possible aggregate-level associations between personality and suicide prevalence, state-level analysis within the United States yielded significantly negative associations between the Big Five factor of Neuroticism and suicide rates. This effect was observed for historical as well as contemporary suicide rates of the total or the elderly population and was preserved with controls for the four other Big Five factors and measures of state wealth. Also conforming to cross-national findings, the Big Five factors of Agreeableness and Extraversion were negatively, albeit not reliably, associated with suicide rates.
部分重复了莱斯特和沃拉塞克的几项跨国研究中关于人格与自杀率之间可能的总体水平关联的研究结果，美国州一级的分析得出，神经质这一“大五”人格因素与自杀率之间存在显著的负相关。在总人群或老年人群的历史自杀率和当代自杀率中均观察到了这种效应，并且在对其他四个“大五”人格因素和州财富指标进行控制后，该效应依然存在。同样与跨国研究结果一致的是，宜人性和外向性这两个“大五”人格因素与自杀率呈负相关，尽管这种相关性并不稳定。
