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SUBMITTER: Hakulinen C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4605994 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hakulinen Christian C Elovainio Marko M Pulkki-Råback Laura L Virtanen Marianna M Kivimäki Mika M Jokela Markus M
Depression and anxiety 20150526 7
<h4>Background</h4>Personality is suggested to be a major risk factor for depression but large-scale individual participant meta-analyses on this topic are lacking.<h4>Method</h4>Data from 10 prospective community cohort studies with 117,899 participants (mean age 49.0 years; 54.7% women) were pooled for individual participant meta-analysis to determine the association between personality traits of the five-factor model and risk of depressive symptoms.<h4>Results</h4>In cross-sectional analysis, ...[more]