Decoupling personality and acute psychiatric symptoms in a depressed sample and a community sample.
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The association between depression and neuroticism is complex; however, because of the difficulty in assessing neuroticism during mood episodes, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. In this study, we sought to decompose neuroticism into finer grained elements that were uncorrelated with psychiatric symptoms and examine the incremental validity of those elements in explaining deficits in interpersonal functioning. A bifactor model with one general factor and six specific factors fit the data well in both a depressed ( N = 807) and a community ( N = 1,284) sample, and the specific factors were relatively independent of acute symptoms. Moreover, two specific factors (Angry Hostility and Self-Consciousness) accounted for incremental variance in interpersonal functioning problems in the community sample and a subgroup of depressed participants. The results demonstrate that neuroticism can be decomposed into components that are distinct from symptoms and incrementally associated with deficits in interpersonal functioning.
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Research supports a bifactor model of negative emotionality, consisting of a general factor in addition to distinct, but correlated, narrow factors.
“Although negative emotionality is composed of facets (narrow traits), research supports of bifactor model of negative emotionality, consisting of a general factor in addition to distinct, but correlated, narrow factors (Subica et al., 2016; Brandes et al., 2019; Fournier et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Fournier, J. C., Wright, A. G. C., Tackett, J. L., Uliaszek, A. A., Pilkonis, P. A., Manuck, S. B., & Bagby, R. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Fournier, Jay C.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Clinical Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2019-01-18
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 566-581
- ISSN
- 2167-7026 (ISSN-L)
- 2167-7034
- PMC
- PMC6782051
- OpenAlex
- W2909958780
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 65
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 5
- FWCI
- 1.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Clinical Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL040962, HL065137)
- Ontario Mental Health Foundation (Operating Grant, Senior Investigator Award)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH056888, MH097889, MH101760)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- neuroticism, depression, bifactor model, personality traits, self-consciousness, interpersonal functioning, incremental validity, community sample
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