Citation

Draper B, Kolves K, De Leo D, Snowdon J. Suicide Life Threat. Behav. 2014; 44(2): 130-138.

Affiliation

School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Academic Department for Old Age Psychiatry, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, American Association of Suicidology, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/sltb.12053

PMID

23952907

Abstract

Personality traits were examined using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-Revised in an Australian psychological autopsy study involving 259 suicide deaths and 181 sudden death controls aged 35 years and over. Interviews included the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV to determine the presence of psychiatric disorder. Personality traits of suicide deaths differed significantly from those of controls, scoring higher in the Neuroticism and Openness to Experience domains and lower on the Agreeableness and Extraversion domains. These findings varied with the presence of psychiatric disorder and by age. High Neuroticism scores were the most consistent finding in people who died by suicide, although these scores decreased in older suicides.

Language: en