An Overview of Depression-Prone Personality Traits and the Role of Interpersonal Sensitivity
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 30 (1) , 90-103
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00048679609076076
Abstract
A number of personality styles have been proposed as vulnerability traits to depression. In this paper methodological problems associated with identifying such traits are discussed. These include state effects contaminating personality scales and the issue of depressive heterogeneity. Potential depression- prone personality traits are then discussed, including obsessionality, neuroticism, dependency and cognitive dysfunction. High interpersonal sensitivity as a risk factor to depression is then discussed.This publication has 85 references indexed in Scilit:
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