neuroticism
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DiFiore introduced me to the “Ocean” model, which splits people into five main personality types: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
These included self-control, fear of missing out on social experiences, and neuroticism, a personality trait associated with a greater tendency to experience negative emotions such as anxiety, sadness, fear, and anger.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
But grandiosity is associated with being assertive and attention seeking, whereas vulnerability tends to involve neuroticism and suffering from anxiety, depression and self-consciousness.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2023
And then, of course, there’s this: “Females on average score higher than males on the personality trait of neuroticism, defined as anxiety, emotional volatility, and susceptibility to depression.”
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2023
He'd never heard of any marriage maintaining such a crazy high romantic level of manic neuroticism as this for very long.
From Thy Name Is Woman by Bryce Walton
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