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Personality traits as risk factors of depression and anxiety among Japanese students
Author(s) -
Matsudaira Tomomi,
Kitamura Toshinori
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20215
Subject(s) - cooperativeness , harm avoidance , reward dependence , novelty seeking , temperament and character inventory , psychology , persistence (discontinuity) , temperament , clinical psychology , anxiety , personality , self transcendence , negative affectivity , depression (economics) , big five personality traits , risk factor , developmental psychology , psychiatry , big five personality traits and culture , social psychology , medicine , geotechnical engineering , macroeconomics , economics , engineering
The aim of this study is to examine the effects of personality (temperament and character) on specific depression and specific anxiety. A total of 541 Japanese undergraduates were investigated by using the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrated that specific depression was predicted by lower Reward‐Dependence, Persistence, Self‐Directedness, Cooperativeness, and Self‐Transcendence; specific anxiety was predicted by higher Novelty‐Seeking, Harm‐Avoidance, Persistence, and Self‐Transcendence, and lower Self‐Directedness. Immaturity of Self‐Directedness is a risk factor for negative affectivity. Immaturity of all character dimensions is a risk factor for specific depression. The relationship between Harm‐Avoidance and depression in previous studies may be linked partly to somatic symptoms that were deliberately eliminated in the HAD scale. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.