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ArticleSchizophrenia research2025

Characterizing the relationship between personality dimensions and psychosis-specific clinical characteristics.

Youjin Jenny Jang, Walid Yassin, Raquelle Mesholam-Gately, Elliot S Gershon, Sarah Keedy, Godfrey G Pearlson, Carol A Tamminga, Jennifer McDowell, David A Parker, Kodiak Sauer and 1 more

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Youjin Jenny JangDepartment of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Walid YassinDepartment of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Raquelle Mesholam-GatelyDepartment of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Elliot S GershonDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Sarah KeedyDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Godfrey G PearlsonOlin Neuropsychiatry Research Center/Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Carol A TammingaDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
Jennifer McDowellDepartments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
David A ParkerDepartments of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bio-Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Kodiak SauerDepartment of Politics, Princeton University, NJ, USA.
Matcheri S KeshavanDepartment of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: mkeshava@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Funding

Bipolar & Schizophrenia Consortium for Parsing Intermediate PhenotypesR01MH077851 · NIMH · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TAMMINGA, CAROL A · 2007 to 2019
$7.8M
Bipolar & Schizophrenia Consortium for Parsing Intermediate PhenotypesR01MH077945 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI PEARLSON, GODFREY D · 2007 to 2019
$7.6M
Stability of Biotypes: a Longitudinal EvaluationR01MH078113 · NIMH · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KESHAVAN, MATCHERI S. · 2007 to 2019
$6.2M
Stability of Biotypes: a Longitudinal Evaluation (STABLE)R01MH103368 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GERSHON, ELLIOT S, KEEDY, SARAH K · 2015 to 2019
$4.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077851NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077945NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH078113NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH103368
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPast studies associating personality with psychosis have been limited by small nonclinical samples and a focus on general symptom burden. This study uses a large clinical sample to examine personality's relationship with psychosis-specific features and compare personality dimensions across clinically and neurobiologically defined categories of psychoses.

methodsA total of 1352 participants with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar with psychosis, as well as 623 healthy controls (HC), drawn from the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes (BSNIP-2) study, were included. Three biomarker-derived biotypes were used to separately categorize the probands. Mean personality factors (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) were compared between HC and proband subgroups using a generalized linear model. A robust linear regression was utilized to determine personality differences across biotypes and diagnostic subgroups. Associations between personality factors and cognition were determined through Pearson's correlation. A canonical correlation was run between the personality factors and general functioning, positive symptoms, and negative symptoms to delineate the relationship between personality and clinical outcomes of psychosis.

resultsThere were significant personality differences between the proband and HC groups across all five personality factors. Overall, the probands had higher neuroticism and lower extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness. Openness showed the greatest difference across the diagnostic subgroups and biotypes, and greatest correlation with cognition. Openness, agreeableness, and extraversion had the strongest associations with symptom severity.

conclusionsIndividuals with psychotic disorders have different personality traits compared to HC. In particular, openness may be relevant in distinguishing psychosis-specific phenotypes and experiences, and associated with biological underpinnings of psychosis, including cognition. Further studies should identify potential causal factors and mediators of this relationship.

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Bipolar DisorderPersonalityPsychotic DisordersSchizophreniaSchizophrenic PsychologyAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung AdultBiotypesCognitionFunctioningPersonalityPositive and negative symptom scalePsychosis

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