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DATE: October 1, 2026 at 06:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Childhood trauma is linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts in adults with depression and anxiety

URL: https://www.psypost.org/childhood-trauma-is-linked-to-suicidal-thoughts-and-attempts-in-adults-with-depression-and-anxiety/

An analysis of data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety found that among adults with depressive or anxiety disorders, those who experienced more childhood trauma were more likely to report recent suicidal thoughts and past suicide attempts. Personality traits, insomnia, and low social support statistically accounted for part of this link. The paper was published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Suicide is a major global health problem, and people living with depression or anxiety are among those at the greatest risk. Experiencing abuse or other serious trauma during childhood can increase this risk further, sometimes many years after the original events. One explanation (called the diathesis-stress model) is that childhood trauma creates a lasting vulnerability that can interact with later stresses, such as mental illness, difficult life events, or lack of social support.

Childhood trauma may shape personality in ways that increase vulnerability, for example by contributing to hopelessness, aggression, neuroticism, or a reduced sense of control over one’s life. It may also affect a person’s social world, increasing the likelihood of loneliness, poor support, and repeated negative life experiences. Additionally, childhood trauma is associated with problems such as disturbed sleep, alcohol use, smoking, physical inactivity, and higher body weight. It may also alter biological stress systems, including inflammatory processes and the hormonal system, further affecting how the body responds to stress.

Study author Jasper X.M. Wiebenga and his colleagues set out to examine the association between childhood trauma and suicidal outcomes (suicidal ideation and suicide attempts), as well as various factors that might mediate this association. In other words, they were interested in identifying factors that may be affected by childhood trauma and that may, in turn, affect the risk that a person will start thinking about suicide or attempt suicide.

The researchers analyzed data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA), a large, ongoing study designed to investigate depressive and anxiety disorders. They hypothesized that more severe childhood trauma would be associated both with a higher likelihood of having suicidal thoughts without having attempted suicide and with a higher likelihood of having attempted suicide.

The analysis used data collected between 2004 and 2007 from 1,572 individuals between 18 and 65 years of age who had been diagnosed with a depressive or anxiety disorder in the 12 months before enrolling in the study. Participants were recruited from across the Netherlands. Of these individuals, 24% had a depressive disorder without an anxiety disorder, 30% had an anxiety disorder without a depressive disorder, and 46% had both. Just over half (55%) reported experiencing childhood trauma. Participants’ average age was 41 years, and 67% were women.

To assess childhood trauma, the researchers used the Childhood Trauma Index, a structured interview about emotional neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse, and sexual abuse before age 16, scored from 0 to 8 based on the number of trauma types and how often they occurred. Suicidal ideation in the past week was assessed with a shortened version of the Scale for Suicide Ideation, and lifetime suicide attempts were assessed with the question “Have you ever made a serious attempt to end your life, for instance by harming or poisoning yourself or by getting into an accident?”

Based on their answers, participants were divided into three groups: those with neither recent suicidal thoughts nor a past attempt (1,248 people), those with recent suicidal thoughts but no past attempt (231 people), and those with recent suicidal thoughts and a past attempt (93 people). People who had attempted suicide in the past but had no recent suicidal thoughts were left out of the analysis.

The researchers also used data on participants’ personality traits (the Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity-Revised, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory, and the Pearlin Mastery Scale), negative life events (the Recent Life Events Questionnaire), social support, loneliness, lifestyle (alcohol consumption, smoking, sleep quality, physical activity, and body mass index), markers of systemic inflammation (C-reactive protein and interleukin-6, measured from blood samples), and levels of the stress hormone cortisol (from saliva samples).

After controlling for age and sex, each one-point increase in childhood trauma score was associated with 51% higher odds of having recent suicidal thoughts without a past attempt, and 2.68 times higher odds of having recent suicidal thoughts along with a past suicide attempt. When the researchers compared participants with severe childhood trauma (a score of 4 or more) to those with no childhood trauma, the odds of recent suicidal thoughts without an attempt were 2.63 times higher. The odds of having recent suicidal thoughts and a past attempt were almost 10 times higher.

Further analyses tested each potential mediator separately. For both suicide outcomes, a number of factors showed significant indirect associations consistent with mediation: aggression, insomnia, lower social support, loneliness, neuroticism, lower extraversion, hopelessness, and a weaker sense of control over one’s life (people who feel that events in their life are outside their control were more likely to report suicidal thoughts).

Interestingly, higher levels of interleukin-6, a marker of systemic inflammation, also emerged as a potential mediator of the link between childhood trauma and suicide attempts, although it accounted for only about 3% of the association and was no longer significant once other factors were considered together. Other biological markers, including C-reactive protein and cortisol, were not significant mediators. Among lifestyle factors, only insomnia played a role; alcohol use, smoking, physical activity, and body weight were not significant mediators.

The researchers then entered the significant mediators into combined models, which test how much each factor contributes after accounting for the overlap among them. For recent suicidal thoughts without an attempt, neuroticism, lower extraversion, aggression, hopelessness, insomnia, and social support together accounted for about 66% of the association with childhood trauma. For suicidal thoughts with a past attempt, a weaker sense of control, aggression, insomnia, and social support accounted for about 39% of the association. In both cases, childhood trauma remained significantly linked to the suicide outcomes even after accounting for these factors.

“Altogether, CT [childhood trauma] was associated with both suicide outcomes, but SI+SA+ in particular. These associations were substantially attenuated in multiple-mediator models in which multiple personality traits, insomnia, and perceived social support showed significant indirect associations consistent with mediation after accounting for shared variance among variables,” the study authors concluded.

“Aggression, insomnia and social support statistically accounted for the link between CT and the outcomes SI+SA- and SI+SA+. Neuroticism, introversion, and hopelessness linked CT to SI+SA- in particular, whilst locus of control showed a significant indirect association consistent with mediation of the association between CT and SI+SA+. The findings point to potentially modifiable factors relevant for suicide prevention, especially aggression, insomnia and social support, that require further investigation in longitudinal studies.” (In the authors’ shorthand, SI+SA- refers to suicidal ideation without a suicide attempt, and SI+SA+ refers to suicidal ideation with a suicide attempt.)

The study contributes to the scientific understanding of factors associated with suicide attempts and suicidal ideation. However, it should be noted that the design of this study does not allow any causal inferences to be drawn from the results. The potential mediators were measured at the same time as suicidal thoughts, so the study cannot show whether they came before or after them. Additionally, childhood trauma was reported by participants as adults, leaving room for recall bias, although the authors note that research suggests such retrospective reports are generally reliable.

Many of the potential mediators were also correlated with one another, so the combined models capture each factor’s unique contribution rather than its full role. Finally, all participants had depressive or anxiety disorders, and the sample was predominantly Dutch and female, so the findings may not apply to the general population, to men, or to other cultures.

The paper, “Childhood trauma and suicide ideation and attempts: Examining the mediating role of psychosocial, personality, lifestyle and biological factors,” was authored by Jasper X.M. Wiebenga, Lili Lokhorst, Adriaan W. Hoogendoorn, Henriette D. Heering, Merijn Eikelenboom, Erik J. Giltay, Patricia van Oppen, and Brenda W.J.H. Penninx.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/childhood-trauma-is-linked-to-suicidal-thoughts-and-attempts-in-adults-with-depression-and-anxiety/

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DATE: September 26, 2026 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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TITLE: Large analysis connects specific personality traits to problematic internet pornography use

URL: https://www.psypost.org/personality-traits-linked-to-problematic-internet-pornography-use/

People who exhibit high levels of impulsivity, sexual compulsivity, and neuroticism are more likely to struggle with problematic internet pornography consumption, according to a recent review of past research. The large analysis also found that traits like conscientiousness and self-control correspond with lower rates of pornography use overall. The findings were published in the journal Communication Research.

Internet pornography is widely accessible and highly popular, with many adults consuming it for leisure, curiosity, or to enhance intimate relationships. While this consumption is casual for most viewers, a subset of people develop what psychologists call problematic use. This pattern of behavior is characterized by emotional distress, feelings of addiction, and negative impacts on a person’s daily life or relationships.

Understanding what drives someone toward problematic consumption can help clinicians identify at-risk individuals and design better treatment protocols. Mehdi Akbari, a clinical psychologist at Kharazmi University in Iran, led a team to investigate how various psychological profiles correspond with different viewing habits. The researchers aggregated data from dozens of past studies to paint a detailed picture of the psychological vulnerabilities associated with unregulated viewing.

Akbari and his colleagues conducted a meta-analysis, a statistical technique that combines the results of multiple independent studies to identify broad trends. They searched academic databases for previous research measuring internet pornography use alongside personality traits or relationship attachment styles. Attachment styles refer to how people emotionally bond with others, often categorized as secure, anxious, or avoidant.

The final analysis included 51 studies published between 2005 and 2024. These studies encompassed a large sample of 45,808 participants from various countries, with an average age of 38. The researchers divided the data into two categories based on how the original studies measured viewing habits: general internet pornography use and problematic internet pornography use.

The strongest psychological correlate across all the data was sexual compulsivity, which is defined as an intrusive, repetitive urge to engage in sexual behaviors. People scoring high in sexual compulsivity were heavily represented among those reporting problematic pornography habits. Impulsivity, or the tendency to act without planning or considering long-term consequences, showed the second strongest positive link to problematic consumption.

The researchers also found positive correlations between overall pornography use and traits like sensation-seeking and narcissism. Sensation-seeking involves a desire for novel and varied experiences, which the internet’s endless supply of adult content easily fulfills. Narcissism, which involves excessive self-focus and a desire for idealized experiences, might draw individuals to the highly curated and flawless sexual scenarios frequently depicted in commercial pornography.

The analysis also evaluated the “Big Five” personality traits, a standard psychological model that measures extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. Neuroticism, which involves a tendency to experience negative emotions like anxiety and sadness, was positively correlated with both general and problematic pornography use. People with high neuroticism might turn to online sexual content as a coping mechanism to manage or escape their emotional distress.

Two other Big Five traits, extraversion and openness, were positively correlated with general pornography consumption. Extraversion measures a person’s sociability and preference for stimulation, while openness reflects curiosity and a willingness to try new things. Individuals high in these traits might be more inclined to explore diverse digital environments, though these specific measurements were not statistically significant in their relation to problematic or addictive viewing patterns.

Conversely, the analysis revealed that conscientiousness and self-control correspond with lower pornography consumption. Conscientiousness involves being goal-oriented, organized, and capable of delaying gratification. Individuals with high scores in these areas reported lower levels of both general and problematic viewing, suggesting that self-discipline acts as a protective buffer against developing behavioral addictions.

Agreeableness, a trait characterized by a cooperative and harmonious disposition toward others, was also linked to lower overall consumption. The researchers noted that highly agreeable people often maintain successful interpersonal relationships offline. This real-world social success might make them less likely to use online activities as a compensatory strategy for loneliness or unmet psychological needs.

When examining attachment styles, the team found a positive link between anxious attachment and problematic pornography use. Anxiously attached individuals tend to worry about being rejected or abandoned by their romantic partners. The researchers suggested that these individuals might prefer pornography because it provides sexual stimulation without the risk of interpersonal rejection.

The research team tested whether demographic factors like age and gender altered the strength of these psychological correlations. Although pornography consumption is generally higher among men than women, the statistical links between specific personality traits and viewing habits remained consistent regardless of gender. The associations also held steady across different age groups, indicating that these psychological vulnerabilities operate similarly in both young adults and older populations.

Because the analysis relies on observational data, the results only show correlations and cannot prove that certain personality traits cause problematic pornography use. It is possible that the relationship works in the opposite direction, where excessive viewing alters a person’s self-control or heightens their neuroticism over time. Both factors could also be driven by an unmeasured third variable, such as an underlying mood disorder or an environmental stressor.

Many of the included studies relied on participants from Western, industrialized nations, meaning the results might not perfectly reflect the habits of a global population. The researchers also noted that differing definitions of internet pornography across the original 51 studies made it difficult to establish perfectly uniform measurements. Small sample sizes for some specific traits, like the relationship between narcissism and problematic use, prevented the team from running deeper statistical comparisons.

Future investigations will need to look at specific clinical populations and explore how different genres of pornography interact with individual psychological differences. Tracking these viewing habits over a longer period would help clarify how specific personality traits influence digital media consumption as people age. In the meantime, clinical psychologists can use these behavioral profiles to better support individuals struggling with unregulated digital habits.

The study, “Personality, Attachment, and Pornography: A Meta-Analysis,” was authored by Mehdi Akbari, Shiva Jamshidi, Zahra Sadat Hosseini, Sonay Sheikhi, Rezvaneh Asadi Asadabad, Mahshid Zamani, and Paul J. Wright.

URL: https://www.psypost.org/personality-traits-linked-to-problematic-internet-pornography-use/

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Communications expert shares how to confidently interrupt someone who won’t stop talking

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Communications expert shares how to confidently interrupt someone who won’t stop talking

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Psychological wellbeing as choosing your own symptom

There’s a slightly bleak and apologetic note to Mari Ruti’s writing here on pg 156 of The Call of Character. There’s a much nicer way of framing this: through therapeutic work we can begin to craft our own symptom rather than grapple with what spontaneously emerges. Once you understand the work something destructive is doing for you, it becomes possible to find other ways of scratching that psychic itch:

In this context, it is useful to recall that a symptom is at bottom a method of binding energy that has no other place to go. This implies that to the extent that we are able to devise an effective way of discharging our excess energy, we might be able to dodge the most voracious of symptoms. Many high-achieving individuals, for instance, are successful in part because they have found a suitable outlet for the surplus of energy that courses through their bodies and minds. Consciously or unconsciously, such individuals understand that they have a choice between pathology and achievement, that the less they are able to pour their tension into their accomplishments, the more likely it is to erupt in painful symptoms, obsessions, neuroses, and addictions of various kinds. This may seem like a sad state of affairs, and it may also be an addiction of sorts, but it is arguably one of the least destructive means of processing anxiety.

Once you cut through the mystification, there’s a deeply affirming message buried at the heart of Lacanian theory and practice: frantically looking for something to complete you is getting in the way of enjoying the many things you do have in your existence. There is a great deal of enjoyment to be had in existence, if only you can prise yourself out of the struggle to find some final resolution to it all. Ultimately I think it’s quite similar to what Bollas says in quite a straightforward mode: “I am telling the patients to stop looking so hard, give up the effort to see direct evidence of the meaning of being, and get to what one can know by simply relaxing and talking”.

BlueSky Is A Platform For Attention Whores With No Standards

I’m convinced that Bluesky is the platform for attention-whores who perform and humiliate themselves for validation and affirmation. It’s really sad. I don’t feel bad when bad things happen to them as a consequence because they were already warned, yet they prioritize fitting into a culture and refuse to deal with their feelings of inadequacy. The reason they stay is that the bar is low for meaningful engagement, allowing them to indulge in their obsessions and compulsions while being rewarded for self-destructive behavior. It truly is quite pathetic.

I initially joined Bluesky for the sexual content because people on Mastodon have little interest in sex and much more elaborate norms around sexuality. Contrary to what people think of me, I don’t actually use social media in the conventional way most people do. I view it on an abstract, non-algorithmically served layer via my network analysis tools, and I interact with YouTube in a very constrained way. So, I wasn’t aware of how bad things were until I started using Bluesky conventionally. The men on Bluesky are just plain repulsive to me. Desperation, neediness, lack of independence, and obsessively posting about a single topic (like sex, religion, or politics), instead of developing a genuine hobby that demonstrates skill, progress, and mastery, are major turn-offs. I find a lack of standards absolutely disgusting.

For example, if someone abhorrent gives you a compliment, you don’t accept it. If an abhorrent person follows you, you block them. Yet what I see are men posting sexual content and seeking attention and validation from anyone, regardless of who it’s coming from. If I look through someone’s activity and see nothing but low-effort posts interacting with nothing but sexual content or obsessive engagement with that type of content, I lose interest immediately.

A reason why my husband has held my attention for over a decade is that there is always something new with him. He is always randomly looking into developing a new skill. One day, he started randomly speaking Mandarin to me, which I did not know he knew how to speak. He had told me he had been learning Mandarin. Yes, my husband is neurodivergent and his interests are cars, but that doesn’t displace all other things. Another reason why my husband holds my attention is that he can keep a conversation going and match anyone’s changes. It’s not one ritualistic or compulsive thing every single fucking day.

A very real consequence of the lack of standards in gay sexual spaces, especially given that many misogynistic, homophobic far-right men suppress their homosexual attractions, is that many of the fetishes in gay sexual spaces are reminiscent of manosphere content. Because of what I do for a living, I have access to audience segmentation metrics and social embeddings of how content is served. Manosphere content clusters with homoerotic content that men consume. At some point, obsession became so normalized that people stopped realizing it was problematic.

Unless gay men set boundaries and tell manosphere bros, “we’re not having that,” you’ll see what I see on Bluesky. I’m actually very sexual myself, and I frequently go to bathhouses—those that have very explicit rules—sex parties, and orgies.

The funny thing is that I have had plenty of really deep philosophical conversations sitting in the hot tub of a bathhouse with naked gay men. Because of health codes and all that, you can’t do sexual things in the pool or the hot tub, so those areas were places for genuine play and conversation, while spots like the saunas were the fuck spots. I recall a particularly interesting conversation I had with an older gay man who had been going to that bathhouse since the ’80s. He explained to me the social context of the HIV epidemic and how, basically, no one knew it was sexually transmitted, so everyone was still barebacking at that exact same bathhouse we were in.

The issue here is people who fuck and sexually perform for awful people who want to murder them because they have absolutely no fucking standards and are so emotionally needy that they forgo all forms of self-preservation. I’m a computer scientist, so I have access to a lot of data tools. I can tell you for a fact that there is a strong correlation between men who want to murder gay men and trans people and the ones liking, engaging in parasocial dynamics with, and commenting in their replies. You’re willing to take sexual attention from people who want to kill you, and that blows my mind.

In their minds, Bluesky is better if it is not a Nazi strip bar but a Nazi BDSM-furry-kink club? What the ever-loving fuck?! Honestly, I watch a lot of feminist content that rips manosphere content apart, so much so that I can instantly recognize coded things. The “fuck no!” moment for me is when I saw manosphere-coded things being fetishized in the ego networks of large gay adult content creators and OnlyFans creators in social network embeddings. It’s not like it is insidious. If I see it, everyone else sees it; they are just ignoring it because they are prioritizing sexual validation and their obsessions.

How I changed my personality in six weeks.

Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers.

Here’s what happened.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260104-how-i-changed-my-personality-in-six-weeks?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Personally #Psychology #Health #Openness #Conscientiousness #Extraversion #Agreeableness #Neuroticism #Science #Longread

We found support for the associations most frequently cited in the literature: #conscientiousness <-> #compliance, and #neuroticism <-> #perceivedRisk. Other associations that are only occasionally seen in the literature were less strongly indicated, and there were some novel discoveries.
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The neurotic individual and the group

From Group-Analytic Psychotherapy: A Meeting of Minds by Harold Behr & Liesel Hearst, pg 10:

Neurosis, according to Foulkes, is a state of mind which develops when, as individuals, we get to be at odds with our group and become, to a varying degree, isolated from ourselves and others.

The neurotic position is by definition highly individualistic, and therefore works against the group. It acts as an irritant to both the individual and the group and leads, if left unchecked, to the isolation of the individual from the group. The individual’s so-called neurotic symptoms are in fact an aspect of him- or herself which cannot be communicated in words, and which can therefore only again expression in symptomatic form. For symptoms to become suitable for sharing, they must be translated into communicable language.

https://soundcloud.com/kuro-429308535/please-revere-me-my-purpose

#groupAnalysis #neuroticism #relationalReflexivity

Hate exercising? Factoring in your personality type could help

“There’s an adage in the industry saying that ‘the best exercise is the one you will do,’ implying…
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Analysis of over 1,000 genetic markers from eight health studies has identified a causal relationship between diastolic blood pressure and neuroticism.

Summary: https://knowridge.com/2025/03/study-finds-a-surprising-link-between-high-blood-pressure-and-personality/

Original paper: https://gpsych.bmj.com/content/35/5/e100877

#Science #Health #MentalHealth #Psychology #BloodPressure #Neuroticism

Unraveling Attachment Styles: The GPS of Human Connections

#AttachmentStyles #HumanConnections #Relationships #PsychosocialVulnerability #Neuroticism #Psychoanalysis #DyadicAnalysis #InterdependenceModel #EmotionalIntelligence #Vulnerability #LoveAndFriendship #MentalHealthAwareness #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth

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New psychology research reveals how one’s own personality predicts long-term relationship satisfaction https://www.psypost.org/new-psychology-research-reveals-how-ones-own-personality-predicts-long-term-relationship-satisfaction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #psychology #research #longtermsatisfaction #personalitytraits #neuroticism

The persistence and the degree of the type of parasocial relationships occultists form is insane! Seriously, at any given time, I have about 20 random occultists seriously thinking that we have a relationship or that I am thinking anything about them merely because they bumped into me on Discord or Reddit or something. It is seriously terrifying and horrifying how quickly a random encounter gets spun into a paranoid delusion.

There is one person I know from psionics communities who won’t leave me alone on Reddit or Discord because she is convinced that she is telepathically connected to me, that I am putting thoughts in her head, and that I am angry at her because she chooses to be independent. The more you try to convince these people that they are delusional and the more evidence they gather for themselves, the deeper they fly into their schizophrenic, parasocial delusions. I’m not talking about that insane schizophrenic woman from DKMU. I am talking about someone from 15 years ago that I knew in psionics communities named Kira. I’m noticing that the truly unhinged ones hang out on Discord. Their delusions literally last for years and years.

I am literally watching said person on Discord describe how I pissed off gods they worked with, and that, apparently, they are causing me low self-esteem from a sock account. The terrifying thing is they don’t realize it’s projection. For some reason, they lack insight into their own emotions, so they are projecting their neuroticism onto me and saying I am feeling what they feel about themselves. It also tactically implies that they feel things like low self-esteem are put into their head.

The confusing thing is that this person says they are an atheist but believes these deities are real. Somehow, because they work with them as equals – which is insane to me, because there is an intrinsic power dynamic. The idea that people believe they are equal to beings that they believe can create cosmos doesn’t make sense to me. I’m an atheist, so the whole thing is nonsense to me.

The belief that others are implanting thoughts into your mind is a common delusion associated with schizophrenia, giving rise to the trope of tin-foil hats. This person is evidently very mentally ill.

#anarchism #anarchists #anarchy #animistic #atheism #Athiest #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #DKMU #energyWork #magick #Mastodon #mentalHealth #mentalIllness #neuroticism #occult #occultism #occultists #pagan #paganism #paranormal #parasocial #psionics #psychic #Reddit #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #Theism #Threads #Twitter #witch #witchcraft

As the first author is not on mastodon (yet), I get the honour of sharing our latest article on the relationship between #personality and destructive #leadership. Specifically, it dives into (facets of) #neuroticism as antecedent of abusive supervision and lassez-faire leadership behaviors. Open access, please enjoy, and share! #psychology #research #AcademicChatter #big5 https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apps.12495

People with high #neuroticism scores not only experience negative #emotions more strongly, but also more often than people with average or below-average scores. They are more often self-critical, react more poorly to external #criticism
#Psychology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/06/psy06072302.html

#BloodPressure Highly Likely to Cause #Neurotic Personality Trait - https://neurosciencenews.com/blood-pressure-neuroticism-21906/… via
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#MendelianRandomization #Psychiatry

"#diastolic blood pressure was significantly associated with #neuroticism (over 90%), based on 1074 #SNP's."