Effective Psychological Factors on Multiple Sclerosis: Personality Traits, Depression, Anxiety and Stress

The aim of this study is to investigate the personality traits including’s: depression، anxiety، and stress among individuals with Multiple sclerosis (MS) and comparing this characteristic with normal individuals. Eighty person with MS (56 female، 31/62±6/88 year، and 24 males، 31/87±8/85 year) and 78 individual without MS (56 female، age: 33/20±6/60 year; 22 male، age: 32/00±7/73 year) selected through random sampling from MS Society in Tehran and MS clinic in Emam Reza hospital in Tabriz university of medical sciences and then divided to four groups: female with MS، male with MS، female without MS، male without MS. Variables of our study were neuroticism، extroversion، openness، agreeableness، conscientiousness، depression، anxiety، and stress which assessed via brief form of NEO Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-42). Tukey showed that mean score of neuroticism، depression، anxiety، and stress in male and female with MS were higher than those in female and male without MS، and mean score of extroversion، openness، agreeableness، conscientiousness’ in male and female with MS were lower than those in female and male without MS. Personality profile of individuals with MS is a combination of neuroticism، low extroversion; openness، agreeableness، conscientiousness and high mean score of depression، anxiety، and stress.