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neuroticism  

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  • Definition Neuroticism refers to a broad personality trait dimension representing the degree to which a person experiences the world as distressing, threatening, and unsafe. Each individual can be positioned somewhere on this personality dimension between extreme poles: perfect emotional stability versus complete emotional chaos. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Psychology; Neuroticism]

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