Sato T, Narita T, Hirano S, Kusunoki K, Goto M, Sakado K, Uehara T
Department of Psychiatry, Munich University, Munich, Germany.
Compr Psychiatry. 2001 Jul-Aug;42(4):337-41. doi: 10.1053/comp.2001.24587.
Cloninger has proposed a seven-factor psychobiological model of personality and has developed the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) to measure four temperament dimensions and three character dimensions. This theory of personality may be of great importance in developing an integrated understanding of psychosocial and biological processes underlying the etiology and course of depression, and a large number of studies are being carried out using the TCI to determine the pathology of depression. The present study investigated the factor validity of the TCI in 156 mildly to moderately depressed patients with major depression. The results indicate that the TCI is an internally consistent and factor-analytically valid instrument in patients. Although there was some evidence that a state of depression strengthened correlation between harm avoidance and cooperativeness, the proposed factor structure of the TCI appeared, in general, robust against the state effect of depression, when the state was mild to moderate. These results suggested that the TCI has considerable promise as an instrument for characterizing the underlying personality structure of mildly to moderately depressed patients with major depression.
克隆宁格提出了一个七因素人格心理生物学模型，并开发了气质与性格量表（TCI）来测量四个气质维度和三个性格维度。这种人格理论对于全面理解抑郁症病因和病程背后的心理社会及生物学过程可能具有重要意义，并且正在进行大量使用TCI来确定抑郁症病理学的研究。本研究调查了TCI在156例轻度至中度重度抑郁症患者中的因素效度。结果表明，TCI在患者中是一种内部一致且经因素分析有效的工具。尽管有证据表明抑郁状态会加强回避伤害与合作性之间的相关性，但当抑郁状态为轻度至中度时，TCI所提出的因素结构总体上似乎对抑郁的状态效应具有较强的抵抗力。这些结果表明，TCI作为一种用于刻画轻度至中度重度抑郁症患者潜在人格结构的工具具有相当大的前景。
