AN OVERVIEW OF DEPRESSION-PRONE PERSONALITY-TRAITS AND THE ROLE OF INTERPERSONAL SENSITIVITY

Authors
BOYCE P MASON C
Citation
P. Boyce et C. Mason, AN OVERVIEW OF DEPRESSION-PRONE PERSONALITY-TRAITS AND THE ROLE OF INTERPERSONAL SENSITIVITY, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 30(1), 1996, pp. 90-103
Citations number
99
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,Psychiatry
Journal title
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00048674
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
90 - 103
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-8674(1996)30:1<90:AOODPA>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
A number of personality styles have been proposed as vulnerability tra its to depression, In this paper methodological problems associated wi th identifying such traits are discussed. These include state effects contaminating personality scales and the issue of depressive heterogen eity. Potential depression-prone personality traits are then discussed , including obsessionality, neuroticism, dependency and cognitive dysf unction, High interpersonal sensitivity as a risk factor to depression is then discussed.