Personality features related to generalized anxiety disorder

Forty-six patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) without any other coexisting axis I diagnoses were compared with 50 control subjects for assessment on axis II. No specific personality disorder (PD) was found to be significantly associated with chronic anxiety, although the majority of anx...

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Published in:Comprehensive psychiatry 1990-07, Vol.31 (4), p.363-368
Main Authors: Gasperini, Mariangela, Battaglia, Marco, Diaferia, Giuseppina, Bellodi, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety Disorders - diagnosis
Anxiety Disorders - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Chronic Disease
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Personality Assessment
Personality Disorders - diagnosis
Personality Disorders - psychology
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
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Summary:Forty-six patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) without any other coexisting axis I diagnoses were compared with 50 control subjects for assessment on axis II. No specific personality disorder (PD) was found to be significantly associated with chronic anxiety, although the majority of anxious patients showed significantly more maladaptative traits than controls. Discriminant analysis selected a list of items able to provide a correct classification rate of 91% based on personality features selected in canonical function. Factor analysis indicated that personality characteristics of expectation of damage were more closely related to GAD in our sample.
ISSN:0010-440X
1532-8384
DOI:10.1016/0010-440X(90)90044-S