title: [Personality profile in bipolar schizoaffective psychoses. A comparison with bipolar affective psychoses].
abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate personality profiles in patients with bipolar affective and schizoaffective disorder, classified according to ICD-9 criteria using objective psychological tests (Personal Research Form, Objective Analytical Test Battery, IPC-Query Form). The bipolar schizoaffective patients were further subtyped according to Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) into schizoaffective-affective and schizoaffective-schizophrenic patients. 81 patients took part in the study (29 bipolar affective and 52 bipolar schizoaffective patients; the latter were subtyped into 23 schizoaffective-schizophrenic and 29 schizoaffective-affective patients). We showed that the personality profiles are quite similar in schizoaffective-affective and schizoaffective-schizophrenic patients if compared to purely affective patients. But indeed there are pronounced differences between the schizoaffective-affective and the schizoaffective-schizophrenic subtypes, so that subtyping schizoaffective disorder like done in Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) seems to show that schizoaffective disorders are not a homogenous group.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Wien.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thau
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lenz
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rieder
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kubinger
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grisar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D010556:Personality Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology
vernacular_title: Persönlichkeitsprofile bei bipolar schizoaffektiven Psychosen. Ein Vergleich zu bipolar affektiven Psychosen.