Personality disorders in students with depressive pathology.

Abstract

In a group of 111 students with depressive disorders, 70% presented a concurrent personality disorder and nearly 15% had prominent personality traits. The unstable, obsessive, hysteric and dysthymic types of personality disorders were relatively more frequent, the higher percent of cases (27.3%) being included in the mixed subgroup of these disorders. The patients with personality disorders had: an earlier age of affective illness onset, a more marked depression severity, a higher frequency of recurrent and nonreactive depression forms. Nonbipolar major depressive disorders were associated with the presence of unstable and dysthymic types of personality disorders, while minor depressive disorders were related with hysteric, asthenic and mixed ones.