• DOI:10.1017/S0033291716001653
Corpus ID: 23548727

Neuroticism's prospective association with mental disorders halves after adjustment for baseline symptoms and psychiatric history, but the adjusted association hardly decays with time: a meta-analysis on 59 longitudinal/prospective studies with 443 313 participants

@article{Jeronimus2016NeuroticismsPA,
  title={Neuroticism's prospective association with mental disorders halves after adjustment for baseline symptoms and psychiatric history, but the adjusted association hardly decays with time: a meta-analysis on 59 longitudinal/prospective studies with 443 313 participants},
  author={B. Jeronimus and R. Kotov and H. Riese and J. Ormel},
  journal={Psychological Medicine},
  year={2016},
  volume={46},
  pages={2883 - 2906}
}

• B. Jeronimus, R. Kotov, +1 author J. Ormel
• Published 2016
• Medicine, Psychology
• Psychological Medicine

Background This meta-analysis seeks to quantify the prospective association between neuroticism and the common mental disorders (CMDs, including anxiety, depression, and substance abuse) as well as thought disorders (psychosis/schizophrenia) and non-specific mental distress. Data on the degree of confounding of the prospective association of neuroticism by baseline symptoms and psychiatric history, and the rate of decay of neuroticism's effect over time, can inform theories about the structure… Expand