OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the attachment style of bipolar patients and their children, and to investigate the relationship between attachment style, and temperament, personality characteristics, and clinical features of bipolar disorder. METHOD The study included 44 euthymic bipolar patients, 35 of their healthy children (>16 years old), and 84 healthy controls (matched in terms ...

OBJECTIVE To examine differences in temperament profiles between patients with recurrent unipolar and bipolar depression. METHOD Depressed individuals with recurrent major depressive disorder (MDD) (n = 94) and those with bipolar (n = 59) disorders (about equally divided between types I and II) were recruited by newspaper advertisement, radio and television announcements, flyers and newslette...

objective: given that the topic of bipolar disorder overdiagnosis has been relatively neglected in the literature and considering its significance in psychiatric training. the present study was conducted through an objective structured clinical examination (osce) on psychiatric residents to assess the validity of their clinical diagnosis. methods: twenty forth residents participated in the exam...

OBJECTIVE Not enough is known about which patients suffering from major depressive disorder benefit from antidepressant drug treatment. Individual temperament is relatively stable over a person's lifespan and is thought to be largely biologically predefined. We assessed how temperament profiles are related to depression and predict the efficacy of antidepressant treatment. METHODS We recruite...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate temperament and character correlates of panic disorder (PD) comorbidity in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (BD) or unipolar depression (UD). METHODS Temperament and character were assessed using the Temperament and Character Inventory Revised (TCI-R) in 181 patients (70 patients with BD-I, 51 patients with BD-II and 60 with UD) in a euthymic ...

Background Previous research has examined the association of affective temperaments, as measured by the TEMPS-A, with DSM bipolar disorders. However, the relation of the TEMPS-A with risk for bipolar disorder remains unclear. The present study examined the association of affective temperaments with psychopathology, personality, and functioning in a nonclinically ascertained sample of young adul...

Personality traits are potential endophenotypes for genetic studies of psychiatric disorders. One personality theory which demonstrates strong heritability is Cloninger's psychobiological model measured using the temperament and character inventory (TCI). 277 individuals who completed the TCI questionnaire as part of the South Island Bipolar Study were also interviewed to assess for lifetime ps...

abstract: the aim of the present research was to determine the role of temperament and character in prediction of symptoms obsessive disorder in adolescents. the research sample consisted of 60 who were selected from among students with symptoms of obsessive through the randomly sampled method in high schools of ardabil city. to collect the data, temperament and character inventory and obsessiv...

Depression is a frequent pathology that especially exposes to the suicidal risk. Lately, researches demonstrated that bipolar depression in the setting of a major bipolar disorder is more purveyor of such a risk. A depressive episode that appears in a cyclothymic temperament is considered as a bipolar II 1⁄2. In this form of soft bipolarity, suicidal risk appeared much higher than in classical ...

The Lebanese-Arabic TEMPS-A (Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire) was used to assess the association between affective temperament and mental disorders in a nationally representative sample of the Lebanese Evaluation of the Burden of Ailments and Needs Of the Nation study(L.E.B.A.N.O.N). The five affective temperaments were associated with mental d...