TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality as a subclinical expression of the affective disorders
AU - Wetzel, Richard D.
AU - Cloninger, C. Robert
AU - Hong, Barry
AU - Reich, Theodore
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Loui>, Mo. Richard D. Wetzel, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology, Washington Universit! School of Medicine: C. Robert Cloninger, M.D.: Associate Professor of Psychiatry und Genetics. Washington University School of Medicine: Barry Hong, Ph.D.: Instractor in Medical Psychology. Washington University School of Medicine: and Theodore Reich. M.D.: Professor of Psychiatp and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, The Jebi?sh Hospital of St. Louis. Supported in part by Federal Grant MH-13002, MH-18911, MH-25.521, and Research Scientist Development Award MH-0048 (C.R.C.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Richard D. Wetzel, Jenyish Hospital of St. Louis, 216 S. Kingshighway, St. Louis, MO. 63IlO. @ 1980 by Grune & Stratton. Inc. 0010-440X/80/2103-0003$01 .OOlO
PY - 1980
Y1 - 1980
N2 - The literature on the relationship between personality traits and the various forms of affective disorder were reviewed. On the basis of this review, it was hypothesized that probands with primary unipolar affective disorder and their relatives would be significantly higher on cyclothymia, as measured by trait A of the 16 PF, and that no other significant correlations between depression and personality traits would be found. Contrary to the hypotheses, depressed probands and their relatives were lower than appropriate controls on cyclothymia. Evidence for the familial transmission of an increased amount of secondary trait QII (adjustment versus anxiety) was found. It was speculated that the spectrum disorder involving subdepressive behavior (QII) and unipolar affective disorder is independently transmitted from the spectrum involving cyclothymia, bipolar I and II, and mania.21 Designs to test these speculations were discussed.
AB - The literature on the relationship between personality traits and the various forms of affective disorder were reviewed. On the basis of this review, it was hypothesized that probands with primary unipolar affective disorder and their relatives would be significantly higher on cyclothymia, as measured by trait A of the 16 PF, and that no other significant correlations between depression and personality traits would be found. Contrary to the hypotheses, depressed probands and their relatives were lower than appropriate controls on cyclothymia. Evidence for the familial transmission of an increased amount of secondary trait QII (adjustment versus anxiety) was found. It was speculated that the spectrum disorder involving subdepressive behavior (QII) and unipolar affective disorder is independently transmitted from the spectrum involving cyclothymia, bipolar I and II, and mania.21 Designs to test these speculations were discussed.
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U2 - 10.1016/0010-440X(80)90003-6
DO - 10.1016/0010-440X(80)90003-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 7379511
AN - SCOPUS:0019195073
SN - 0010-440X
VL - 21
SP - 197
EP - 205
JO - Comprehensive Psychiatry
JF - Comprehensive Psychiatry
IS - 3
ER -