Gd. Schrader et G. Tsourtos, ROLE OF DEPRESSIVE PERSONALITY IN DETERMINING CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRONIC DEPRESSION, Journal of personality disorders, 10(4), 1996, pp. 370-376
Features of depressive personality as defined by Schneider (1958) were
associated with high levels of depression severity in a cohort of 87
outpatients with chronic depression, Depressive personality was associ
ated with higher levels of introversion and an earlier age of onset of
depressive symptoms. However, as depressive personality did not predi
ct outcome in terms of depression severity over a one year period, an
additional diagnosis of depressive personality in patients with chroni
c depression may not add greatly to a clinical understanding of patien
ts.