Anxious Personality Traits: Perspectives from Basic Emotions and Neurotransmitters

作者：Jie Dong, Tingwei Xiao, Qiuyue Xu, Fei Liang, Simeng Gu, Fushun Wang, Jason H. Huang · 发表于：Brain Sciences · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3390/brainsci12091141 · 被引用次数：47 · 研究领域：Personality Disorders and Psychopathology、Personality Traits and Psychology、Semiotics and Cultural Interpretation

OBJECTIVE: Recently, many emotional diseases, such as anxiety and depression, have prevailed, and it is expected that emotional disease will be the leading cause of social and economic burden in 2030. These emotional diseases may be due to certain personality traits, which could be the reasons for the development of mental illness. Personality theories have been constantly developed over the past hundreds of years, and different dimensions of personality traits corresponding to different physiological bases and emotional feelings have been proposed. However, personality may be the least studied area in psychology. METHODS: In this paper, we will give a short review on the development of personality theories as well as dimensional emotional theory. Then, we will compare the similarities between the emotional dimension and personality dimension. Furthermore, we will also investigate the neural mechanisms of personality and emotions, focusing on neuromodulators for anxiety-related personality traits, in order to provide a clear relationship between different neurotransmitters and anxiety-related personality traits. RESULTS: The results of our study suggest that the emotional dimension and personality dimension may be somewhat related, for example, the extrovert/introvert dimension of personality might be related to the hedonic dimension, which includes happiness/sadness, and the neurotic dimensions might be related to emotional arousal. In addition, our study found that personal...