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Methods: A total of 174 adult patients with Type 2 DM (T2DM) were included. Glycemic control was assessed via HbA1c values over one and five years. Personality traits were measured using the Personality Belief Questionnaire-Short Form (PBQ-SF), and psychiatric symptoms were evaluated with the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Patients were grouped based on HbA1c levels: good (&lt;7%), moderate (7\u20139%), and poor (&gt;9%) control. Results: Significant differences were found in several personality traits, including obsessive-compulsive, histrionic, paranoid, passive-aggressive, antisocial, and schizoid traits, between groups, with higher scores in patients with moderate glycemic control compared to those with poor control. No significant relationship was observed between psychiatric symptoms and glycemic control. The proportion of patients meeting the predefined HbA1c follow-up frequency threshold was lowest in the poor control group. Conclusions: General psychiatric symptoms did not show significant differences across glycemic control groups. Several maladaptive personality traits differed between groups in univariate analyses; however, after adjustment for potential confounders, only passive-aggressive personality traits remained independently associated with HbA1c levels. These findings indicate a possible association between specific personality characteristics and glycemic control, although no direct clinical utility can be inferred from the present data. Further longitudinal studies are required to clarify these relationships.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/healthcare14101274","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,11]],"date-time":"2026-05-11T20:14:16Z","timestamp":1778530456000},"page":"1274","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Personality Traits, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Necip","family":"Nas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty, Siirt University, 56100 Siirt, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7478-8521","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fatih","family":"Saglam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, Siirt Training and Research Hospital, 56100 Siirt, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"276","DOI":"10.1016\/j.diabres.2014.01.001","article-title":"Depression and type 2 diabetes in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review","volume":"103","author":"Mendenhall","year":"2014","journal-title":"Diabetes Res. 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