A sample of 115 men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 completed the 30-item General Health Questionnaire together with the short-form Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. The data indicate psychological distress so assessed is correlated .43 (p<.001) with Neuroticism and –.26 (p<.01) with Introversion but is unrelated to Psychoticism scores.
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