ASSESSMENT OF LOCUS OF CONTROL IN PATIENTS WITH ANXIETY AND DEPRESSIVE-DISORDERS

We studied Levenson's Internal (I). Powerful Others (P), and Chance (C ) locus of control scales in 193 patients with six DSM-III-R diagnoses : Major Depression (MD). Panic Disorder(PD), Generalized Anxiety Disor der (GAD). Social Phobia (SP). Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). an d Mixed Anxiety Depressive Disorder (MAD). Compared to the comparison groups (CG), we found specific patterns for some of the diagnostic cat egories. There were no significant differences between the I scale sco res and of those in the different anxiety and depressive disorder grou ps and the CG. But, patients with MD, SP, or MAD had significantly hig her P scale scores than the CG. Patients with MD, PD, SP, and MAD had higher C scale scores than the CG. The OCD patients had the lowest P a nd C scale scores oi any of the groups and not significantly different than the CG. The findings have some research and clinical implication s. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.