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13 - Personality Traits and Mental Disorders

from Part III - Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Christian Hakulinen ,
Markus Jokela ,
Mika Kivimäki  and
Marko Elovainio
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Summary

The hypothesis that personality and mental health are linked is very old. Ancient Greeks, Hippocrates and Galen, theorized that four humors explain personality type and specific health problems. Ever since these early speculations there has been a wide interest on the topic, and a number of theoretical models have been proposed to explain the association between personality and health, including mental disorders. To date, a number of systematic meta-analyses (Gomez & Corr, 2014; Jeronimus, Kotov, Riese & Ormel, 2016; Kotov, Gamez, Schmidt & Watson, 2010; Malouff, Thorsteinsson & Schutte, 2005; Ohi et al., 2016; Ormel et al., 2013) and narrative reviews (Andersen & Bienvenu, 2011; Klein, Kotov & Bufferd, 2011; Widiger, 2011; Widiger & Smith, 2008) have been published on the topic.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 183 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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