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Depressed patients and non‐psychiatric controls: discriminant analysis on social environment variables
Author(s) -
Eisemann M.
Publication year - 1985
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.1600-0447.1985.tb05062.x
Subject(s) - linear discriminant analysis , psychiatry , psychology , social environment , clinical psychology , medicine , statistics , mathematics , political science , law
A set of variables from the social environment (e.g. social contacts, confiding relationships, leisure activities, loneliness) was used to differentiate between a consecutive series of 111 patients diagnosed as having a depressive illness and a sample of 98 non‐psychiatric controls. The function derived from the discriminant analysis correctly classified 83 % of the subjects. The results indicate shortcomings in the social environment of depressives and point to the discriminating power of such variables.