Factor analytic study of depressive disorders.
Factor analysis was performed on 39 variables (symptoms and characteristics) of a diagnostically heterogenous population of depressive patients (N = 200). The results indicated the existence of one general factor that groups together "endogenomorphous" symptoms and characteristics and three others that are associated with three subtypes of depressive disorders-psychotic, anxiety, and retarded depression. The 13 variables that have high loadings with the first factor agree with widely known facts about the structure of the axial syndrome of endogenous depression.
Biro
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University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.
Till
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D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics