Stressful life events interacting with cognitive/personality styles to predict late-onset major depression.
The current work evaluated the interaction of life stressors with cognitive/personality styles in predicting late-onset depression in 42 elderly outpatients with DSM-IV unipolar Major Depression and 42 nondepressed controls. Control subjects were matched to cases on age, sex, race, and years of education. As suggested by Beck's cognitive theory of depression, a multivariate model indicated that specific stressful-event types interacted with specific cognitive/personality styles in strongly predicting depression onset, adjusting for the positive associations of medical illness and reduced physical functioning with depression.
Mazure
Carolyn M
CM
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Maciejewski
Paul K
PK
Jacobs
Selby C
SC
Bruce
Martha L
ML
D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003237:Connecticut; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales