Personality and depressive illness
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 60 (2) , 170-176
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1979.tb03585.x
Abstract
The relationship between personality (as measured by the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire) and depressive illness type, as determined by responses to the Levine-Pilowsky Depression Questionnaire, was studied in human subjects. When the effects of age and depressive severity were accounted for, a significant difference emerged between endogenous and non-endogenous depressive states in that the former were associated with a lower score on factor E, indicating a more submissive, dependent personality. Implications of this finding are discussed.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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