News In Psychiatry
A recent study has studied personality traits known to contribute to health, life satisfaction, and positive interpersonal relationships, namely confident optimism, insight into others and warm feelings toward others, productive activity, and skill at relating to others.
Stressful life events in the previous two years, such as death of a loved one, parental divorce, serious illness, or a romance rejection were evaluated.the evaluators assessed them for four negative outcomes: interpersonal difficulties, educational or occupational problems, psychiatric disorders or suicide attempts, and violent or criminal behaviors.they later tried to connect possessing the 4 positive traits to susceptibility of negative outcomes and found a statistically significant dose-response relationship between the number of positive personality traits and a decreasing likelihood of each of the four negative mental health outcomes in early adulthood.
Moreover, those who experienced numerous stressful events as adolescents and who had fewer of the traits were found to be at elevated risk of deleterious mental outcomes as young adults. Thissuggests that howm traits safeguard adult mental health.
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