neuroticism
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Participants provided DNA samples and completed questionnaires designed to measure the Big Five personality traits: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Psychologists use personality traits such as extroversion, neuroticism or anxiety as a means of characterizing typical patterns of thought, emotion and behavior that differ from one person to the next.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 5, 2023
And then, of course, there’s this: “Females on average score higher than males on the personality trait of neuroticism, defined as anxiety, emotional volatility, and susceptibility to depression.”
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2023
Orson Fortune is the best mission man out there, but he grates his employers with bougie requests: for the best wines, and for “rehabilitation vacations” to assuage his neuroticism.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
The modern exploitation of hysteria, however, was still in its embryo stage, half-way between the genteel hysterics of the 'sixties and the suppressed neuroticism of the new century.
From Consequences by E. M. Delafield
