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Interpersonal profiles in major depressive disorder
Author(s) -
Barrett Marna S.,
Barber Jacques P.
Publication year - 2007
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/jclp.20346
Subject(s) - psychology , major depressive disorder , interpersonal communication , mood , clinical psychology , distress , depression (economics) , anxiety , psychiatry , interpersonal relationship , interpersonal psychotherapy , randomized controlled trial , medicine , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Although patients with mood disorders report interpersonal difficulties in addition to depression or anxiety, few studies have examined interpersonal patterns in those patients. Here the authors' goals were to (a) identify the interpersonal pattern in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), (b) determine interpersonal differences between subgroups of MDD patients, and (c) examine the interpersonal patterns of comorbid MDD patients. One‐ hundred forty‐one MDD adults participated in an ongoing randomized clinical trial of treatments for depression. Interpersonal profiles revealed that MDD patients were significantly more distressed by interpersonal problems than normative samples. Furthermore, MDD patients with depressive personality disorder reported more interpersonal distress than MDD‐only patients report and were more likely to have interpersonal problems related to dominance and control than submissiveness. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 63: 247–266, 2007.