title: Premorbid personality traits of patients with organic (ICD-10 F0), schizophrenic (F2), mood (F3), and neurotic (F4) disorders according to the five-factor model of personality.
abstract: The present article aims to examine premorbid personality traits of psychiatric patients with various diagnoses by asking their close relatives to retrospectively rate the patients' usual self with a questionnaire designed for the five-factor model of personality, a rapidly emerging comprehensive theory of personality structure. Data for 140 patients and 84 controls were analyzed. Although psychiatric patients as a group were characterized by high neuroticism and low conscientiousness when compared with the healthy controls, there were only a few traits that distinguished a particular diagnostic group from either the normal control or from the rest of the patients: neurotic disorder patients had higher neuroticism scores than the normal controls; unipolar depressives had a higher conscientiousness score than the rest of the patient group. No salient premorbid trait was noted for patients with organic mental disorders, schizophrenic disorders or bipolar disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Nagoya City University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan. GBA02004@niftyserve.or.jp
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furukawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hori
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsuji
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hamanaka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology