Transdiagnostic clustering of self-schema from self-referential judgements identifies subtypes of healthy personality and depression.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The heterogeneity of depressive and anxiety disorders complicates clinical management as it may account for differences in trajectory and treatment response. Self-schemas, which can be determined by Self-Referential Judgements (SRJs), are heterogeneous yet stable. SRJs have been used to characterize personality in the general population and shown to be prognostic in depressive and anxiety disorders.

Methods

In this study, we used SRJs from a Self-Referential Encoding Task (SRET) to identify clusters from a clinical sample of 119 patients recruited from the Institute of Mental Health presenting with depressive or anxiety symptoms and a non-clinical sample of 115 healthy adults. The generated clusters were examined in terms of most endorsed words, cross-sample cor

SUBMITTER: Tan GC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10808829 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature