What's the use of neuroticism?
What's the use of neuroticism?
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DOI：
10.1016/s0191-8869(00)00144-6
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发表时间：
2001-08-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Davis, C
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作者：
Claridge, G;Davis, C
在这篇文章中，我们考察了神经质(N)的两个方面：它作为人格描述符的地位以及它在异常状态下的人格动态中的作用。我们首先提出，高N是异常功能(心理和生理)的普遍伴随，其本身几乎没有描述或解释价值。然后，我们承认N在与其他人格变量一起使用时具有更多的效用，我们认为在这里最有信息的是具有独特方差的障碍特有特征，同时也与N相关。我们认为N在病因学中的作用是调节变量，影响这些障碍特有特征的表达以产生(或不产生)与它们相关的临床条件。作为说明，我们从饮食障碍、分裂型和精神分裂症的联合研究中选取了一些例子。(C)2001爱思唯尔科学有限公司。保留所有权利。
In this paper we examine two aspects of neuroticism (N): its status as a personality descriptor and its role in the personality dynamics of abnormal states. We first suggest that high N is such a universal accompaniment of abnormal functioning (both psychological and biological) that by itself it has little descriptive or explanatory value. Then, acknowledging that N has more utility when used alongside other personality variables, we argue that here the most informative are disorder-specific characteristics that have unique variance, while also correlating with N. We propose that N's role in aetiology is that of a moderator variable, influencing the expression of these disorder-specific characteristics to produce (or not) the clinical conditions to which they relate. By way of illustration, examples are taken from our joint studies of the eating disorders and of schizotypy and schizophrenia. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.