Role of Personality Functioning in the Quality of Life of Patients with Depression

ABSTRACTDepression is associated with reduced quality of life (QoL), and personality pathology is associated with higher impairment and poorer treatment outcomes in patients with depression. This study aims to analyze the effects of personality functioning on the QoL of patients with depression. Severity of depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory), level of personality functioning (Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis Structure Questionnaire), and QoL (Medical Outcome Study 36-item Short-Form) were assessed in a sample of 84 depressive outpatients. Personality functioning showed main effects on both the mental and physical components of QoL. A moderating effect of personality functioning on the relationship between depressive symptoms and QoL was tested but not confirmed. Severity of depressive symptoms was found to mediate the effect of personality functioning on the mental component of QoL. These results suggest that the effect of personality functioning on the QoL of patients with depression may be related to the higher severity of depressive symptoms found in patients with lower levels of personality functioning..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:205

Enthalten in:

The journal of nervous and mental disease - 205(2017), 9, Seite 705-713

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Crempien, Carla [VerfasserIn]
Grez, Marcela [Sonstige Person]
Valdés, Camila [Sonstige Person]
López, María José [Sonstige Person]
de la Parra, Guillermo [Sonstige Person]
Krause, Mariane [Sonstige Person]

Links:

Volltext
search.proquest.com

BKL:

44.90

77.70

Themen:

Effects
Mental depression
Patients
Personality
Quality of life

RVK:

RVK Klassifikation

doi:

10.1097/NMD.0000000000000676

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1997426714