PREMORBID PERSONALITY OF MONOPOLAR AND BIPOLAR DEPRESSIVES - COMPARISON BASED ON PERSONALITY INVENTORIES

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 224  (2) , 161-173
Abstract
Premorbid personalities were studied in 65 monopolar endogenous depressives and in 45 bipolar depressives by a retrospective self-rating evaluation after recovery. The instruments used were 2 questionnaires of v. Zerssen, especially constructed for that purpose, along with a questionnaire, which was based on Eysenck''s system of personality description. The 2 groups were compared according to each test scale. Significant differences resulted in 2 of the scales. Monopolar depressives scored higher than bipolars in the scale representing Tellenbach''s melancholic type. This could be described with terms such as orderly, strenous and conscientious. Bipolars showed more extroversion than monopolars. None of the patients'' groups could be distinguished from the normal population in any of the scales (extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism).

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