title: Relationship between Chinese adjective descriptors of personality and emotional symptoms in young Chinese patients with bipolar disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether personality traits are related to emotional symptoms (mania, hypomania, and depression) in Chinese patients with bipolar disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients with bipolar I and II disorders, and healthy volunteers, were assessed using the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP) questionnaire, Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ), Hypomanic Checklist (HCL-32), and Plutchik-van Praag Depression Inventory (PVP).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-three patients with bipolar I disorder, 35 with bipolar II disorder and 216 healthy controls were included. Bipolar I and II groups scored significantly higher on MDQ, HCL-32 and PVP scales than controls; the bipolar II group scored lower on the MDQ, but higher on the HCL-32 and PVP than bipolar I. In the bipolar I group, the CADP Intelligent trait (β, 0.25) predicted MDQ; Intelligent (β, -0.24), Agreeable (β, 0.22) and Emotional (β, 0.34) traits predicted PVP. In the bipolar II group, Intelligent (β, 0.22), Agreeable (β, -0.24) and Unsocial (β, 0.31) traits predicted MDQ; Intelligent (β, -0.20), Agreeable (β, -0.31) and Emotional (β, -0.26) traits predicted HCL-32.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Four out of five Chinese personality traits were associated with emotional symptoms in patients with bipolar I or II disorder, but displayed different associations depending on disorder type.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Enyan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Huihui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Hongying
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Qianqian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Yunfei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Junyao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lou
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health, Zhejiang University College of Medicine, Hangzhou, China wangmufan@msn.com.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D044466:Asian People; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003710:Demography; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010551:Personality; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Chinese culture; depression; hypomania; mania; personality trait