Psychological characteristics of chronic depression: A longitudinal cohort study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 288-294

  Wiersma, Jenneke E ^a   Van Oppen, Patricia ^a   Van Schaik, Digna J F ^a   Van Der Does, A J Willem ^b,c   Beekman, Aartjan T F ^a   Penninx, Brenda W J H ^c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CHRONIC DEPRESSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; LEIDEN INDEX OF DEPRESSION SENSITIVITY REVISED; LOCUS OF CONTROL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MASTERY SCALE; NEO FIVE FACTOR INVENTORY; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSIS; ONSET AGE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTROVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953037850     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.09m05735blu     Document Type: Article

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