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Does Having a Dysfunctional Personality Hurt Your Career? Axis II Personality Disorders and Labor Market Outcomes

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Industrial Relations A Journal of Economy and Society

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232x.2010.00629.x

Authors: SUSAN L. ETTNER, JOHANNA CATHERINE MACLEAN, MICHAEL T. FRENCH

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Miami, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Language: English

Topic: Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Miami, Johns Hopkins University, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse