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The availability of confiding persons for depressed patients
Author(s) -
Eisemann M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb01194.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , depression (economics) , psychology , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , medicine , personality , anxiety , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
– The availability of confiding persons both within and outside trie household has been investigated in a series of 110 depressed patients and of 98 non‐psychiatric controls. The depressive sample has been classified into diagnostic subgroups of unipolar, bipolar, reactive‐neurotic and unspecified type of depression. The de‐pressives reported lack of confidants lo a significantly higher degree. The only difference among the diagnostic subgroups emerged for the bipolar patients who had about the same availability of a confiding relationship outside the household as the controls.