Self-Report Ratings and Informants' Ratings of Personalities of Depressed Outpatients

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine whether personality traits of depressed pa~tients could be assessed similarly by informants and self-reports of the patients themselves. METHOD: Forty-six depressed outpatients completed the self-report (first-person) version of the Revised NEO Personality I...

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Published in:The American journal of psychiatry 1998-03, Vol.155 (3), p.437-438
Main Authors: Bagby, R. Michael, Rector, Neil A., Bindseil, Kirstin, Dickens, Susan E., Levitan, Robert D., Kennedy, Sidney H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Ambulatory Care
Biological and medical sciences
Comparison
Depression
Depressive Disorder - diagnosis
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Female
Humans
Informants
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised
Patients
Personality
Personality Assessment
Personality Inventory
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Self evaluation
Selfreport
Surveys and Questionnaires
Techniques and methods
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Summary:OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine whether personality traits of depressed pa~tients could be assessed similarly by informants and self-reports of the patients themselves. METHOD: Forty-six depressed outpatients completed the self-report (first-person) version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and nominated informants who knew them well to complete the third-person version of that instrument. RESULTS: Agreement between the self-ratings and informants' ratings on the five factors of the inventory-neuroticism, extraversion, openness-to-experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness-was high. The only significant difference between the self-ratings and informants' ratings was on the extraversion scale, where the patients rated themselves as significantly more introverted than did the informants. CONCLUSIONS: Informants' ratings of personality are similar to self-report ratings of depressed patients. Depressed mood may not influence the self-report of personality traits.
ISSN:0002-953X
1535-7228
DOI:10.1176/ajp.155.3.437