Predicting physical and mental health symptoms: Additive and interactive effects of difficulty identifying feelings, neuroticism and extraversion

Klinger-König, Johanna; Hertel, Johannes; Terock, Jan; Völzke, Henry; Auwera, Sandra Van der; Grabe, Hans J.

doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2018.10.003

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“…Previous studies related higher neuroticism with health status such as depressive symptoms, chronic diseases [42]. Consistent with previous studies [29], our data directly negatively correlated neuroticism with civil servants' QOL.…”

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Mediating role of occupational stress and job satisfaction on the relationship between neuroticism and quality of life among Chinese civil servants: a structural equation model

Kong

Yang

Zhang

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Health Qual Life Outcomes

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Background: Knowledge on the quality of life (QOL) of civil servants is limited. Therefore, the aims of this study were to investigate the QOL of civil servants, and examine whether occupational stress and job satisfaction mediated the association between neuroticism and QOL in civil servants from Shandong, China. Methods: The cross-sectional study included 559 civil servants aged 27 to 60 years from Shandong province in China. Participants completed questionnaires assessing neuroticism, occupational stress, job satisfaction, and QOL. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to examine the hypothetical model. Results: Among the civil servants, the average score for QOL was 75.49 ± 14.73. The SEM analysis showed a good fit of the data to the hypothesized model. Neuroticism, occupational stress, and job satisfaction explained 38% of the variance of QOL. Neuroticism was positively correlated with occupational stress and negatively correlated with job satisfaction and QOL. A strong direct effect (− 0.386, P < 0.01) and moderate indirect effect (− 0.133, P < 0.01) of neuroticism on QOL mediated by occupational stress and job satisfaction were observed. In addition, a direct effect (− 0.197, P < 0.01) and an indirect effect (− 0.044, P < 0.01) of occupational stress on QOL mediated by job satisfaction were also observed. Conclusions: Occupational stress and job satisfaction partly mediated the relationship between neuroticism and QOL among Chinese civil servants. Thus, selecting individuals with a low level of neuroticism as civil servants, reducing occupational stress, and increasing job satisfaction may be important measures to improve their QOL.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Mediating role of occupational stress and job satisfaction on the relationship between neuroticism and quality of life among Chinese civil servants: a structural equation model

Kong

Yang

Zhang

et al. 2020

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“…This relationship would lead neuroticism to be related mainly to the mean intensity of negative affect and extraversion to the mean intensity of positive affect [37,38]. Similarly, one study noted that subjects with low extraversion but high neuroticism may present greater behavioral inhibition, leading to increased symptoms of anxiety [39]. These results coincide with the model found, suggesting that this personality factor could lead to higher levels of anxiety in patients with UIAs.…”

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Personality and anxiety are related to health-related quality of life in unruptured intracranial aneurysm patients selected for non-intervention: A cross sectional study

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Background Personality traits and mental health problems have been previously reported in unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA) patients; however, few studies have clarified the relations between these variables and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study was designed to characterize the personality traits, HRQoL and mental health of patients with UIA and to evaluate whether personality has an influence on HRQoL and whether this is mediated by the patients' emotional symptoms. Methods Sixty-three patients with UIAs (mean age 62.6 years, 83.9% women) answered questionnaires for depression, anxiety, HRQoL and personality traits between June 2016 and May 2019. Results Eight percent of the sample had depression, and 27.4% had anxiety. Participants showed high levels of responsibility, kindness and neuroticism and low levels of extraversion and openness. HRQoL scores were normal compared with the Colombian population. Structural equation analysis showed that patients' HRQoL was negatively affected by anxiety levels and that the latter are associated with the patient's personality, where neuroticism is directly associated with symptomatology and inversely associated with extraversion.

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“…show somatic complaints in high levels of negative affect or simultaneous occurrence of affective alexithymic features and negative affect (Klinger-König et al, 2018;Lundh & Simonsson-Sarnecki, 2001;Schwarz et al, 2017;Van Den Houte et al, 2017;Van Den Houte, Bogaerts, Van Diest, Van Oudenhove, & Van Den Bergh, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similar to this finding, previous studies have confirmed lack of associations of the TAS-20 EOT and DDF subscales with physical symptoms. However, these studies have been performed on different samples such as community samples (Bailey & Henry, 2007;Klinger-König et al, 2018;Wearden, Lamberton, Crook, & Walsh, 2005) and patients with functional syndrome (Van Den Houte et al, 2017), fibromyalgia (Martínez et al, 2015) and medically unexplained symptoms (De Gucht, 2002;De Gucht et al, 2004a, 2004bRiem et al, 2018).…”

Section: Structural Equation Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been found that alexithymia is associated with physical symptoms in asthma patients (Feldman, Lehrer, & Hochron, 2002; Ghorbani et al, 2017; Khosravani et al, 2016). Also, evidence has strongly shown the association of the TAS‐20 DIF subscale, but not the DDF and EOT subscales, with unexplained or physical symptoms, physical pain and somatization (Bailey & Henry, 2007; De Gucht, 2002; De Gucht, Fischler, & Heiser, 2004a, 2004b; Di Tella et al, 2017; Di Tella & Castelli, 2016; Klinger‐König et al, 2018; Martínez et al, 2015; Riem, Doedée, Broekhuizen‐Dijksman, & Beijer, 2018; Van Den Houte et al, 2017). Although mechanisms linking the TAS‐20 DIF subscale to physical symptoms are unknown, empathy and negative affect (e.g.…”

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Alexithymia, empathy, negative affect and physical symptoms in patients with asthma

Khosravani

Ardestani

Alvani

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Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Although alexithymia has been found to be associated with physical symptoms in psychosomatic disorders such as asthma, mechanisms linking this association are unknown. However, affective alexithymic features may be associated with physical symptoms in the presence of deficits in affective characteristics such as low empathy and high negative affect. This study aimed to assess direct effects of alexithymic traits on physical symptoms and indirect effects of these subscales through empathy and negative affect (e.g. depressive, anxious and stress symptoms) by controlling for asthma severity in patients with asthma. Three hundred patients with asthma completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20), the Basic Empathy Scale (BES), the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21 (DASS-21) and the Physical Symptoms Inventory (PSI). After controlling for asthma severity, the results showed that alexithymia subscales of the TAS-20 had no direct effects on physical symptoms, but the difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF) subscale of the TAS-20 was associated with affective empathy and negative affect. Affective empathy was significantly related to negative affect. Affective empathy and negative affect were associated with physical symptoms. The affective subscale of alexithymia on the TAS-20, that is DIF, indirectly affected physical symptoms through affective empathy and negative affect. Findings suggest that patients with asthma who have high levels of DIF may show high physical symptoms in the presence of low affective empathy and high negative affect.

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Predicting physical and mental health symptoms: Additive and interactive effects of difficulty identifying feelings, neuroticism and extraversion

Cited by 26 publications

References 59 publications

Mediating role of occupational stress and job satisfaction on the relationship between neuroticism and quality of life among Chinese civil servants: a structural equation model

Mediating role of occupational stress and job satisfaction on the relationship between neuroticism and quality of life among Chinese civil servants: a structural equation model

Personality and anxiety are related to health-related quality of life in unruptured intracranial aneurysm patients selected for non-intervention: A cross sectional study

Alexithymia, empathy, negative affect and physical symptoms in patients with asthma

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