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26 - Anxiety, Depression and Cognitive Dysfunction

from Part V - Cognitive and Motivational Perspectives: Dynamic Processes of Personality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Michael W. Eysenck  and
Amanda Holmes
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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One of the few incontrovertible assumptions concerning human personality is that it is influenced and determined by a wide range of factors. Of major importance are individual differences in genetic factors. This was shown very clearly by Vukasović and Bratko (2015) in their meta-analytic review of twin, family and adoption studies designed to assess the percentage of individual differences attributable to genetic factors for major personality factors or dimensions. With respect to H. J. Eysenck’s three orthogonal dimensions of extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism (see H. J. Eysenck & M. Eysenck, 1985), the percentage figure ranged between 30 percent for psychoticism and 42 percent for neuroticism (which closely resembles trait anxiety).

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The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology , pp. 364 - 374
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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