title: Personality and depressive illness.
abstract: This paper reports an investigation into the relationship between personality (as measured by the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire) and depressive illness type, as determined by responses to the Levine-Pilowsky Depression Questionnaire. When the effects of age and depressive severity are accounted for, a significant difference emerges between "endogenous" and "non-endogenous" depressive states in that the former are associated with a lower score on Factor E, indicating a more submissive, dependent personality. The possible implications of this finding are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010556:Personality Tests; D012737:Sex Factors