title: Profile of discrete emotions in affective disorders in older primary care patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This research examined whether the frequencies of specific emotions are associated with major and minor depression in older primary care patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Older primary care patients (N = 146), prescreened with a depression questionnaire, completed a diagnostic interview and an emotions questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Controlling for age, sex, and other psychiatric and medical illnesses, major depressives differed from nondepressed controls in nine emotions; minor depressives differed from controls in four emotions. Major depressives differed from the controls more in sadness, joy, and interest--but not anger, fear, or guilt--than in comparison sets of emotions. Minor depressives differed from the controls more in sadness and inner-directed hostility--but not guilt, anger, fear, joy, or interest--than in comparison sets of emotions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The frequencies of discrete emotions are differentially associated with major and minor depression; future research is needed to determine their specific diagnostic and treatment implications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA. Larry_Seidlitz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Seidlitz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Lyness
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Conwell
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Duberstein
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011320:Primary Health Care