Table 3 Personality profile of outpatients without psychiatric disorders recruited from general practitioner settings and individuals with major depressive disorder
Personality traits | Number (%) | Statistics | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
GP outpatients (n = 73) | MDD outpatients (n = 73) | |||
Neuroticism | Ranksum test | < 0.001* | ||
Median (IQR) | 14 (12,17) | 24 (17,27) | ||
Extraversion | Ranksum test | < 0.001* | ||
Median (IQR) | 10 (8,11) | 9 (7,11) | ||
Agreeableness | Ranksum test | 0.406 | ||
Median (IQR) | 19 (18,21) | 19 (17,21) | ||
Openness | t (144) = 0.07 | 0.942 | ||
Mean (SD) | 21.3 (3.2) | 21.3 (3.6) | ||
Conscientiousness | Ranksum test | < 0.001* | ||
Median (IQR) | 33 (30,35) | 28 (25,33) | ||