Centre for Population Studies, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Eur Psychiatry. 2011 Jan;26(1):1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.11.003. Epub 2010 Apr 28.
To examine to what extent the association between neuroticism and psychological distress is related to individuals' inherent vulnerability or their tendency to self-select high-risk environments or situations.
Data was drawn from both waves (1984/1985 and 1991) of the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Psychological distress was evaluated using the 30-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) and neuroticism was assessed with the Eysenck Personality Inventory. A checklist of life events was completed in the second wave only. A Latent State Trait model was estimated to decompose psychological distress into its environmental-contextual and individual-specific components.
Neuroticism accounted for 31 and 10% respectively of the variance of the environmental-contextual and individual-specific psychological distress components.
Our results favour the notion that individuals with high-levels of neuroticism tend to self-select situations likely to lead to adversity and distress.
探讨神经质与心理困扰之间的关联在多大程度上与个体的固有脆弱性或他们倾向于自我选择高风险环境或情况有关。
数据来自健康与生活方式调查的两个波次(1984/1985 年和 1991 年)。使用 30 项一般健康问卷(GHQ-30)评估心理困扰,使用艾森克人格问卷评估神经质。仅在第二波次完成生活事件检查表。估计潜在状态特质模型将心理困扰分解为环境-情境和个体特异性成分。
神经质分别占环境-情境和个体特异性心理困扰成分的 31%和 10%。
我们的结果支持这样一种观点,即具有高水平神经质的个体倾向于自我选择可能导致逆境和困扰的情况。