Temperament and character in women with postpartum depression
| Autor: | Per-Olof Nylander, Caroline Larsson, Ann Josefsson, Gunilla Sydsjö |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Postpartum depression medicine.medical_specialty Health Status media_common.quotation_subject Self-concept Anxiety Depression Postpartum Swedish population Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Personality Big Five personality traits Temperament Psychiatry reproductive and urinary physiology Depression (differential diagnoses) media_common Postpartum Period Obstetrics and Gynecology medicine.disease Self Concept Psychiatry and Mental health Women's Health Female Psychology Postpartum period Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Women's Mental Health. 10:3-7 |
| ISSN: | 1435-1102 1434-1816 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00737-006-0159-3 |
| Popis: | To investigate whether women with postpartum depression differ in personality traits from healthy postpartum women, healthy controls from the normal Swedish population and non-postpartum women with major depression.Forty-five women with postpartum depression were compared with 62 healthy postpartum women, 62 age-matched, healthy, non-postpartum women from a normal sample and 74 non-postpartum women with major depression from a clinical sample. The edinburgh postnatal depression scale was used in order to screen for postpartum depression. A clinical diagnostic interview was done including a rating with the Montgomery-Asberg depression rating scale. Personality i.e. temperament and character was measured by the temperament and character inventory.Harm avoidance (HA) was higher (p0.001) and self-directedness (SD) scored lower (p0.001) in women with postpartum depression compared to healthy postpartum women. These differences were the most important differences between these two groups. Women with postpartum depression scored lower (p = 0.001) in cooperativeness (CO) and higher (p = 0.019) in self-transcendence (ST) compared to healthy postpartum women. Women with postpartum depression scored overall similar to women with major depression.High HA and low SD can be seen as vulnerability factors for developing a depression and especially in a stressful situation as childbirth. |
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