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Describing depressive personality analogues and dysthymics on the NEO‐Personality Inventory—Revised
Author(s) -
Huprich Steven K.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(200012)56:12<1521::aid-4>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - psychology , agreeableness , facet (psychology) , neuroticism , personality , personality assessment inventory , openness to experience , big five personality traits , personality psychology , alternative five model of personality , conscientiousness , personality test , clinical psychology , big five personality traits and culture , developmental psychology , psychometrics , social psychology , extraversion and introversion , test validity
The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) To test Widiger, Trull, Clarkin, Sanderson, and Costa's (1994) description of depressive personalities' profile scores on the NEO‐Personality Inventory—Revised (NEO‐PI‐R; Costa & McCrae, 1992); and (b) to determine the degree of empirical overlap between depressive personality analogues and dysthymics on the NEO‐PI‐R. As predicted, depressive personality analogues (DPAs) had significantly higher mean scores on the Anxiety, Depression, and Self‐Consciousness NEO‐PI‐R facets of Neuroticism than did controls, but not on the Tendermindedness facet. On the second question of interest, DPAs and dysthymics significantly differed on the Self‐Consciousness and Gregariousness facets and clinically differed on the Neuroticism, Openness, and Agreeableness factors, and on the Angry Hostility, Depression, and Positive Emotions facets. Despite overlap on other factors and facets, it is concluded that DPAs can be meaningfully differentiated from dysthymia on the NEO‐PI‐R. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 56: 1521–1534, 2000.