Personality and Anxiety Associations in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

E. Crocetti; T.A. Klimstra; W.W. Hale; J.J.A. Denissen; W.H.J. Meeus

doi:10.13165/SIIW-15-1-2-01

Personality and Anxiety Associations in Adolescents and Emerging Adults

E. Crocetti
, T.A. Klimstra
, W.W. Hale
, J.J.A. Denissen
, W.H.J. Meeus

Tilburg University

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Abstract

This study was aimed at unraveling associations between Big Five personality traits and anxiety symptoms of panic, generalized anxiety
disorder, school phobia, separation anxiety, and social phobia in male and female adolescents and emerging adults from the general popula
-
tion. Participants were 3,758 (54.6% females) adolescents and emerging adults aged between 11 and 26 years. They completed the shortened
Big Five questionnaire and the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders. Results indicated that the associations between Big Five
and anxiety symptoms were consistent across gender and age groups. Most of the associations were statistically significant with the strongest
links found between extraversion and symptoms of social phobia; conscientiousness and symptoms of school anxiety; and emotional stability
and symptoms of panic, separation, generalized, and school anxiety. All these associations were negative, suggesting that higher levels of these
personality traits were related to lower levels of anxiety symptoms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	11
Journal	Social Inquiry into Well Being
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.13165/SIIW-15-1-2-01
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Big Five
Panic
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Separation Anxiety
School Anxiety
Social Phobia
Gender
Adolescence
Emerging Adulthood

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