Conceptualization and preliminary validation of a depressive personality concept

• Author(s): Campos, Rui C.
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/9267
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): depressive personality,; inventory; conceptual proposition,; validation
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

This paper proposes a depressive personality organization—a unique set of traits. It proposes a psychodynamic and psychiatric operationalization and reports on a preliminary validation through the construction of a questionnaire and the investigation of its psychometric properties in three nonclinical samples and a clinical sample of depressed patients. Preliminary results support the validity of the instrument and the underlying theoretical conceptualization of a depressive personality.