Department of psychoanalysis and clinical consulting, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Psychology, Education & Child Studies, Department of Clinical Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2023 Apr;234:103860. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103860. Epub 2023 Feb 10.
Personality and psychopathology are highly relevant and easily relatable constructs. The current study investigated the relationships between dependency and self-criticism, sociotropy and autonomy depressive personality traits, and Cloninger's temperament and character personality traits postulated as vulnerability factors for depression, in relation to depressive and general psychopathology symptoms in a clinical sample of 100 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder. The results showed that self-directedness, a character trait of the temperament and character model, was positively associated with dependency, self-criticism, sociotropy, and autonomy. Applying more in-depth analyses with regression models revealed associations between self-directedness and depressive personality styles dependency and sociotropy, and general psychopathology symptoms was a significant clinical indicator in these relationships. Going beyond the regression models, network analysis showed that self-directedness is associated with self-criticism, sociotropy, autonomy, and general psychopathology symptoms. The relationship between self-directedness and sociotropy, self-criticism and autonomy suggests that these depressive personality traits may be attributable to aspects of self-determination, maturity, responsibility, discipline, and self-acceptance. General psychopathology research informed by literature incorporating personality traits has far-reaching implications for understanding individual differences as well as increasing efforts to contribute to the amelioration of disabling psychological disorders like major depressive disorders.
人格与精神病理学高度相关且易于关联。本研究调查了依赖性和自我批评、社交依附性和自主性、抑郁人格特质与 Cloninger 气质和性格人格特质之间的关系，这些特质被认为是抑郁的脆弱因素，与 100 名被诊断为重度抑郁症的临床患者的抑郁和一般精神病理学症状有关。结果表明，自律性是气质和性格模型的一个性格特征，与依赖性、自我批评、社交依附性和自主性呈正相关。通过回归模型进行更深入的分析表明，自律性与抑郁人格风格的依赖性和社交依附性与一般精神病理学症状之间存在关联，而一般精神病理学症状是这些关系中的一个重要临床指标。超越回归模型，网络分析表明，自律性与自我批评、社交依附性、自主性和一般精神病理学症状有关。自律性与社交依附性、自我批评和自主性之间的关系表明，这些抑郁人格特质可能归因于自我决定、成熟、责任、纪律和自我接受等方面。人格特质与文献相结合的一般精神病理学研究对理解个体差异以及为改善像重度抑郁症等使人丧失能力的心理障碍做出贡献具有深远意义。
