Evaluating the role of maladaptive personality traits in schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy for depression

BACKGROUND: Advancements in the treatment of depression are pivotal due to high levels of non-response and relapse. This study evaluated the role of personality pathology in the treatment of depression by testing whether maladaptive personality traits (1) predict changes in depression over treatment or vice versa, (2) change themselves over treatment, (3) change differentially depending on treatment with schema therapy (ST) or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and (4) moderate the effectiveness of these treatments.

METHODS: We included 193 depressed inpatients (53.4% women, Mage = 42.9, SD = 13.4) participating in an assessor-blind randomized clinical trial and receiving a 7-week course of ST or CBT. The research questions were addressed using multiple indicator latent change score models as well as multigroup structural equation models implemented in EffectLiteR.

RESULTS: Maladaptive traits did not predict changes in depressive symptoms at post-treatment, or vice versa. However, maladaptive trait domains decreased over treatment (standardized Δμ range: -0.38 to -0.89), irrespective of treatment with ST or CBT. Maladaptive traits at baseline did not moderate the effectiveness of these treatments.

CONCLUSIONS: Self-reported maladaptive personality traits can change during treatment of depression, but may have limited prognostic or prescriptive value, at least in the context of ST or CBT. These results need to be replicated using follow-up data, larger and more diverse samples, and informant-rated measures of personality pathology.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

Enthalten in:

Psychological medicine - 53(2023), 10 vom: 09. Juli, Seite 4405-4414

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rek, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Kappelmann, Nils [VerfasserIn]
Zimmermann, Johannes [VerfasserIn]
Rein, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Egli, Samy [VerfasserIn]
Kopf-Beck, Johannes [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cognitive behaviour therapy
Depression
Journal Article
Maladaptive personality traits
Outcome prediction
Personality change
Precision psychiatry
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Schema therapy

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Date Completed 13.09.2023

Date Revised 20.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S0033291722001209

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM340628111