Interrelationships Among Personality Traits, Depressive Symptoms, Childhood Abuse, and Social Disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personality traits and childhood abuse were found to be associated with depressive symptoms and with each other. However, no previous study has elucidated the directional interrelationship among those factors in a clinical population of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). This study sought to construct networks to explicate the directional interrelationship among those factors and social disability, identify the most central factor, and explore potentially existing causality chains implied by the directed association chains.

Methods

This cross-sectional study analyzed data from 1445 patients with MDD in a national cohort. Personality traits were measured using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale for Chinese (EPQ-RSC). Seven dimensi

SUBMITTER: Feng Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12507496 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature