The usefulness of pre-employment and pre-deployment psychological screening for disaster relief workers: a systematic review

Table 5 Personality traits as predictors of psychological distress following disaster relief work

Disorder	Papers reporting significant association with disorder / papers reporting non-significant association with disorder
PTSD	Hardiness [76] Tough mindedness / [68] Extraversion [44] / [45, 68] Neuroticism [32, 44, 45] / [68] Dissimulation / [68] Adjustment [73, 75] Avoidance [45] Psychoticism [44]
Anxiety	Tough mindedness / [68] Extraversion / [68] Neuroticism [68] Dissimulation / [68]
Depression	Tough mindedness / [68] Extraversion / [68] Neuroticism [68] Dissimulation / [68]
Psychological distress / morbidity	Hardiness [61, 76] Conscientiousness [60] Neuroticism [60, 77] Extroversion [60] Adjustment [73, 75]
Peritraumatic dissociation	Adjustment [64] Prudence [64] Ambition [64] Identity [64] Adaptive [64]

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