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Perception of spouse in relation to perception of self by semantic differentials in depressed patients and their spouses
Author(s) -
Chotai J.,
Eisemann M.
Publication year - 1994
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.1600-0447.1994.tb01565.x
Subject(s) - spouse , psychology , perception , anxiety , personality , extraversion and introversion , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , cognition , big five personality traits , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , macroeconomics , neuroscience , sociology , anthropology , economics
Several studies have shown correlations between personality types and affective disorders. To investigate the influence on personality assessment of the reporting individual's own schemata according to the cognitive theory of depression, we used an instrument of 29 items of semantic differentials. We obtained responses from 45 patients (18 men, 27 women) upon their recovery and from their spouses. Each of these 90 individuals indicated self‐perception on one copy and his or her perception of spouse on another. Factor analysis yielded four factors. Self‐perception and perception by spouse were significantly positively correlated for all these factors for the patients and their spouses, indicating lack of schemata influence. Anxiety scores were higher for patients and for women. There was negative correlation for extroversion within couples. Male (but not female) patients showed a negative correlation with their spouses for anxiety.