Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Personal Ment Health. 2018 Aug;12(3):203-215. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1417. Epub 2018 Apr 2.
Most studies on depression and personality have focused on the role of Neuroticism and Extraversion. Openness is a much less studied trait in this literature, as past studies investigating Openness and depression often have found non-significant correlations between them. However, past studies mostly have investigated Openness and depression at the domain level and used non-clinical samples. In the present study, the relationship between depression and Openness at the domain and facet levels was examined in a sample of 266 participants recruited from outpatient psychiatric settings. Findings showed that although the Openness domain was significantly related to depression, it did not account for a significant proportion of unique variance for depression. However, Openness did account for a significant proportion of unique variance for depression at the facet level, even after accounting for sex, age, Neuroticism and Extraversion. Specifically, unique effects emerged for the facets of Aesthetics positively predicting Depression and Values negatively predicting Depression and Anhedonia. Clinical and theoretical implications are discussed. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
大多数关于抑郁和人格的研究都集中在神经质和外向性的作用上。在这一文献中，开放性是一个研究得较少的特征，因为过去研究开放性和抑郁之间的关系的研究往往发现它们之间没有显著的相关性。然而，过去的研究大多是在领域水平上研究开放性和抑郁，并使用非临床样本。在本研究中，对 266 名从门诊精神科环境中招募的参与者的样本进行了研究，考察了抑郁和开放性在领域和方面水平上的关系。研究结果表明，尽管开放性与抑郁显著相关，但它并不能解释抑郁的显著独特差异。然而，即使考虑到性别、年龄、神经质和外向性，开放性在方面水平上仍能解释抑郁的显著独特差异。具体来说，美学方面的独特影响正向预测抑郁，价值观方面的独特影响负向预测抑郁和快感缺失。讨论了临床和理论意义。版权所有 © 2018 约翰威利父子有限公司。
