To determine the personality characteristics associated with affective
disorders the authors administered a battery of self-report personality
inventories to a sample of hospitalized affective patients when their
manifest symptoms had abated. Patients were instructed to answer according
to their premorbid personalities. The personality characteristics assessed
in the 73 depressive and 24 manic patients included neuroticism and
extraversion from the Maudsley Personality Inventory, obsessional pattern,
hysterical pattern, and oral pattern from the Lazare-Klerman-Armor
Personality Inventory, obsessional state and trait from the Leyton
Obsessionality Inventory, and solidity, stability, and validity from the
Marke-Nyman Temperament Survey. Depressive patients demonstrated more
neuroticism, introversion, and obsessionality than manic patients or normal
individuals. The manic patients differed from normal persons only on
obsessionality.Abstract Teaser