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The Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Neuroticism: Back to the Future
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We highlight the role of neuroticism in the development and course of emotional disorders and make a case for shifting the focus of intervention to this higher-order dimension of personality. Recent decades have seen great emphasis placed on differentiating disorders into Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnoses; however, evidence has suggested that splitting disorders into such fine categories may be highlighting relatively trivial differences. Emerging research on the latent structure of anxiety and mood disorders has indicated that trait neuroticism, cultivated through genetic, neurobiological, and psychological factors, underscores the development of these disorders. We raise the possibility of a new approach for conceptualizing these disorders—as emotional disorders. From a service-delivery point of view, we explore the possibility that neuroticism may be more malleable than previously thought and may possibly be amenable to direct intervention. The public-health implications of directly treating and even preventing the development of neuroticism would be substantial.
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“Adolescents with elevated ID levels often have underlying emotional vulnerabilities in 3 areas: negative emotional reactivity, in the form of more frequent experiences of intense negative emotions and less flexible reactions to these; affect intolerance, such that emotional experiences are perceived as difficult to endure; and emotional avoidance, wherein adolescent respond to affect intolerance”
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“Therefore, intervening on this mechanism would allow us to address through a single treatment, a wide number of disorders (Barlow et al., 2014).”
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“Contrary to previous psychological interventions, the UP is not focused on specific symptoms associated with different disorders if not on shared factors, for example neuroticism, which can explain the development and maintenance of these emotional disorders.”
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“These findings contribute to the study of the malleability of neuroticism proposed by Barlow [86], who suggests that personality dimensions may be malleable over time.”
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“Among these processes, neuroticism has been strongly associated with both anxiety and depressive disorders [86,108].”
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“These findings suggest that the IU construct, which is in part related to the need for predictability/controllability facet of the neuroticism construct (16), is more predictive of threat extinction learning than trait anxiety constructs that strongly overlap with multiple facets of the neuroticism construct (60,61).”
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“A growing body of research indicates that psychopathology is hierarchically structured with a general psychopathology factor (p factor) contributing to higher-order externalizing and internalizing dimensions that subdivide into more specific dimensions [22,23,83,84].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Barlow, D. H., Sauer-Zavala, S., Carl, J. R., Bullis, J. R., & Ellard, K. K.
- Affiliations
- Boston University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Barlow, David H.
- Venue
- Clinical Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-10-14
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 344-365
- ISSN
- 2167-7026 (ISSN-L)
- 2167-7034
- OpenAlex
- W2030238393
- Semantic Scholar
- c2529746b7cc11c8c7d746b6b02015245fcddee3
- Cited by
- 850
- References
- 228
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 50.73
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Clinical Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- neuroticism, emotional disorders, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality traits, public health implications
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