2010/12/22 by Susan L. Ettner, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Michael T. French · 1 citation
Psychology · #Affect (linguistics) #Anxiety #Clinical psychology #Dysfunctional family #Economics #Personality #Personality Disorders and Psychopathology #Personality Traits and Psychology #Personality disorders #Productivity #Psychiatry #Psychology #Social psychology #Unemployment #Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1468-232x.2010.00629.x
openalex publication_date 2010/12/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Despite recent interest in how psychiatric disorders affect work outcomes, little is known about the role of personality disorders (PDs), which are poorly understood yet prevalent (15%) and impairing. We used nationally representative data for 12,457 men and 16,061 women to examine associations of PDs with any employment, full-time employment, chronic unemployment, being fired or laid off, and having trouble with a boss or co-worker. Antisocial, paranoid, and obsessive-compulsive PDs demonstrated the broadest patterns of associations with adverse outcomes. Findings suggest that PDs may have implications for the productivity of co-workers as well as that of the disordered employees themselves.