Gender, Race, and OCD Diagnosis and Differences in the Big-5 Personality Traits

Researchers were interested in exploring the interaction between gender, race, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on five personality traits: neuroticism, openness, agreeableness, extraversion, and conscientiousness. Researchers hypothesized that women and men of minority racial populations with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder would have higher means than men and women from non-minority racial populations.