Suicide rate and national scores on the Big Five personality factors.
Across 46 nations around the world, suicide rates were negatively correlated with national scores on the Big Five personality factors of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness (two facets indicating low Psychoticism), thus not replicating previous findings of Lester (1993, 2005).
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Martin
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Department of Basic Psychological Research, School of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria. martin.voracek@univie.ac.at
D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D014943:Global Health; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014944:World Health Organization