Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:597-599
Copyright © 1994 by American Psychiatric Association
Major depression and the self-criticism and dependency personality dimensions
RM Bagby, DR Schuller, JD Parker, A Levitt, RT Joffe and MS Shafir
Mood Disorders Program, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ont., Canada.
The Depressive Experiences Questionnaire was used to assess the personality
dimensions of dependency and self-criticism in 52 depressed patients before
and after treatment and in 22 healthy family practice patients. Neither
personality dimension was significantly influenced by change in depressed
mood, and the recovered depressed patients had higher levels of dependency
and self-criticism than the comparison subjects.
