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THE STRUCTURE OF DEPRESSION, BY FACTORING Q‐DATA, IN RELATION TO GENERAL PERSONALITY SOURCE TRAITS
Author(s) -
Cattell Raymond B.,
Bjerstedt ÅKe
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1967.tb01368.x
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , personality , clinical psychology , factoring , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , social psychology , finance , economics , macroeconomics
The factor structure of a wide, representative sample of questionnaire items was determined across the domain of depression, and their relation to normal personality factors was fixed. The depression items were administered, along with personality marker items from the 16 P.F. Test (or HSPQ), to a mixed group of 139 patients and controls and to 169 younger adults. Eight meaningful simple structure factors were found, 7 replicating across samples. Second order analysis showed no general factor in depression, but rather 4 distinct second orders.