title: Relationship of the 24-item dysfunctional attitude scale with the temperament and character inventory in healthy subjects.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The 24-item Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS-24) has three subscales to evaluate dysfunctional attitudes predisposing to depression in the areas of achievement, dependency and self-control.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of the present investigation was to characterize the three subscales in relation to broad dimensions of personality.
  
  
  METHODS
  The subjects were 528 healthy Japanese volunteers. Personality assessment was conducted by the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), which has seven dimensions. The correlations of the DAS-24 subscales with the TCI dimensions were examined by the multiple regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All DAS-24 subscales had negative correlations with the self-directedness dimension. However, the three subscales had differential patterns of correlations with the reward dependence, persistence, cooperativeness and harm avoidance dimensions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study suggests that dysfunctional attitudes measured by the DAS-24 are closely related to low self-directedness of the TCI. Also, the differential patterns of correlations with some TCI dimensions support the content-specificity of the three subscales.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Yamagata University School of Medicine , Yamagata , Japan.
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Otani
authors.forename: Akihito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Naoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sadahiro
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Enokido
authors.forename: Mitsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamata
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D002605:Character; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D040261:Harm Reduction; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011594:Psychometrics; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013694:Temperament; D055815:Young Adult