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  • Neuroticism and psychological distress: To what extent is their association due to person-environment correlation?

  • G.B. Ploubidis, S. Frangou
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 26 / Issue 1 / January 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 April 2020, pp. 1-5
  • Objective

    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.

    Method

    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.

    Results

    Neuroticism accounted for 31 and 10% respectively of the variance of the environmental-contextual and individual-specific psychological distress components.

    Conclusions

    Our results favour the notion that individuals with high-levels of neuroticism tend to self-select situations likely to lead to adversity and distress.