Background Despite evidence from twin and family studies for an important contribution of
genetic factors to both childhood and adult onset psychiatric disorders, identifying robustly …

Background Bipolar disorder confers the highest risk of suicide among major psychological
disorders. The risk factors associated with bipolar disorder and suicide exist and are …

Personality is influenced by genetic and environmental factors and associated with mental
health. However, the underlying genetic determinants are largely unknown. We identified six …

The tourism sector has been deeply ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic as many
individuals abstained entirely from travel. Thus, before contemplating the trajectory of the …

Openness/intellect is an empirically derived dimension of personality that reflects individual
differences in the ability and tendency to seek, detect, comprehend, utilize, and appreciate …

The Five Factor Model, which measures individual differences on extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience, is …

We examined symptom-level relations between the emotional disorders and general traits
within the five-factor model of personality. Neuroticism correlated strongly with the symptoms …

The goal of this study was to explicate how the lower order facets of extraversion are related
to psychopathology. We used a “bottom-up” approach in which specific extraversion scales …

Substantial literature has linked bipolar disorder with creative accomplishment. Much of the
thinking in this area has been inspired by biographical accounts of poets, musicians, and …

Assessment plays an essential role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and progress
monitoring, but assessment data are often used in ways that are impressionistic and prone …