Premorbid personality in patients with uni- and bipolar affective disorders and controls: assessment by the Biographical Personality Interview (BPI)
| Autor: | H. Hecht, D. von Zerssen, Mathias Berger, G. Spraul, H.-J. Wark, D. van Calker, Martin Bohus |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Bipolar Disorder Personality Inventory Psychometrics media_common.quotation_subject Personality Assessment Personality Disorders behavioral disciplines and activities Interview data Bipolar II disorder mental disorders medicine Humans Personality Pharmacology (medical) In patient Bipolar disorder Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged media_common Depressive Disorder Reproducibility of Results General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Control subjects Questionnaire data Psychiatry and Mental health Personality Development Female Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience. 247:23-30 |
| ISSN: | 1433-8491 0940-1334 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02916249 |
| Popis: | The relationship between premorbid personality and subtypes of affective disorder was investigated by means of the Biographical Personality Interview (BPI) and by a self-rating scale. Interviewer and rater (BPI) were blind to diagnosis. A total of 52 patients with unipolar depression or bipolar II disorder (D/Dm), 32 bipolar-I patients (DM) and 39 control subjects (C) were examined. Expert rating of "typus melancholicus" features (BPI) were found to be more pronounced in D/Dm than in DM and C. "Typus manicus" features were also distinguished between both clinical groups, whereas anxious-insecure features were not significantly different between the groups of patients. In contrast to the expert-rated personality variants, self-rating of personality features did not reveal any significant differences between the two clinical groups. Potential sources of the discrepancies between the questionnaire data and the interview data are discussed. It is concluded that premorbid features of "typus manicus" and "typus melancholicus" predicted, respectively, a predominant manic and a predominant depressive course of an affective disorder. |
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