title: Social adjustment and self-esteem in remitted patients with mood disorders.
abstract: Mood disorders are characterized by manic and depressive episodes alternating with normal mood. While social function is heavily impaired during episodes of illness, there are conflicting opinions about inter-episode function. The present paper focuses on self-esteem and social adjustment in remitted mood disorders patients. Patients with mood disorders (99 bipolar and 86 major depressive subjects, in remission) were compared with a group of 100 control subjects. The self-esteem scale (SES) and the social adjustment scale (SAS) were used to measure self-esteem and social adjustment, respectively, in both groups of subjects. Patients with mood disorder exhibited worse social adjustment and lower self-esteem than control subjects. These results strongly confirm previous observations of poor inter-episode function in patients with mooddisorder.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Scientifico Ospedale San Raffaele, Department of Neuropsychiatric Sciences, University of Milan School of Medicine, Via Luigi Prinetti 29, 20127 Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serretti
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Cavallini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Macciardi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Namia
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Franchini
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Souery
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lipp
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bauwens
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Smeraldi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mendlewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012074:Remission Induction; D012649:Self Concept; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012917:Social Adjustment