Association of Late Adolescent Personality With Risk for Subsequent Serious Mental Illness Among Men in a Swedish Nationwide Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding of personality as an independent risk factor for serious mental illness (SMI) remains limited. Recently, overlap between the polygenic basis for specific personality traits and specific SMIs has been identified.

Objective

To determine the association of the adolescent personality domains of social maturity, mental energy, and emotional stability with later diagnosis of SMI.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal cohort study enrolled Swedish male military conscripts aged 18 or 19 years from January 1, 1974, through December 31, 1997. The diagnosis of an SMI was extracted from the National Patient Register for all inpatient treatment episodes in Sweden from January 1, 1974, through December 31, 2011. Data were analyzed from May 3 t

SUBMITTER: Hayes JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5710245 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature