Harm avoidance

Harm avoidance

In psychology, harm avoidance (HA) is a personality trait. It is a temperament assessed in the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), its revised version (TCI-R) and the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) and is somewhat related to the trait "neuroticism" in the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, — all regarded as anxiety-related traits.

The HA of TPQ and TCI-R has four subscales:
# Anticipatory worry (HA1)
# Fear of uncertainty (HA2)
# Shyness/Shyness with strangers (HA3)
# Fatigability/Fatigability and asthenia (HA4)

It has been suggested that HA is related to high serotonergic activity, [Cite journal
author = C. R. Cloninger
title = A unified biosocial theory of personality and its role in the development of anxiety states
journal = Psychiatric Developments
volume = 4
issue = 3
pages = 167–166
year = 1986
month = Autumn
pmid = 3809156] and much research has gone into investigating the link between HA and components of the serotonin system, e.g., genetic variation in 5-HTTLPR in the serotonin transporter gene. [Cite journal
author = C. M. Mazzanti, J. Lappalainen, J. C. Long, D. Bengel, H. Naukkarinen, M. Eggert, M. Virkkunen, M. Linnoila & D. Goldman
title = Role of the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism in anxiety-related traits
journal = Archives of General Psychiatry
volume = 55
issue = 10
pages = 936–930
year = 1998
month = October
pmid = 9783565]

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