THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SOCIOTROPY AND AUTONOMY, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT AND 2 PROPOSED DEPRESSION SUBTYPES

We examined relations between the cognitive/personality model of socio tropy (SOC) and autonomy (AUT; Beck, 1983) and the affect/personality model of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA; Tellegen, 1985; Watson & Clark, 1984, 1992), and their relations to two proposed depr ession subtypes (Beck, 1983) in 60 adult depressed out-patients SOC an d NA scores shared significant common variance while facets of AUT and low PA were moderately related. Autonomous depressive symptoms appear ed more depression-specific than sociotropic depressive symptoms Findi ngs did not confirm the usefulness of sociotropy and autonomy in the p rediction of the symptom clusters, possibly due to the measurement of the depressive symptom clusters.