title: Machiavellianism and clinical depression in a geriatric sample.
abstract: Administered a test of Machiavellianism to 20 clinically depressed psychogeriatric and 20 non-depressed psychogeriatric patients. Non-depressed males were significantly more Machiavellian than were non-depressed females. Depression in males, then, may be of a more self-aggressive, self-destructive nature, whereas depression in females may be expressed in more emotionally detached attitudes and manipulative behaviors.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression; D000786:Anger; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008257:Machiavellianism; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012737:Sex Factors; D013405:Suicide