Social adjustment in in-patients with affective disorders: predictive factors.
We assessed social adjustment in 145 depressed in-patients using the self-reporting Social Adjustment Scale (42-item version) to evaluate the contribution of demographic and clinical variables and examine social functioning at different levels of depression. Our results indicate that the presence of a psychopathology in association with interpersonal sensitivity, hostility and perceived social support aspects -- and not the severity of current depressive symptoms -- were the most important factors affecting social adjustment. As expected, social disturbances are more pronounced in severe depressives who experience difficulties in all areas: by contrast, patients with low depressive symptom levels do not appear to be maladjusted, by comparison with a community sample.
Affective Disorders Unit, Casa di Cura Parco dei Tigli, via Monticello 1, Villa di Teolo, 35037 Padova, Italy. ud.tigli@gpnet.it
Stella
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Dorz
Giuseppe
G
Borgherini
Sabrina
S
Cognolato
Donatella
D
Conforti
Antonio Luciano
AL
Fiorellini
Caterina
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Scarso
Guido
G
Magni
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004522:Educational Status; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D017533:Marital Status; D008875:Middle Aged; D012917:Social Adjustment