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Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study
Bibliography: leaf 116-135.
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| author | Davidson, Jeremy James Denis |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15671 Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study Davidson, Jeremy James Denis Davids, Fakhry Clinical Psychology Bibliography: leaf 116-135. Depression is the most common psychopathological syndrome in the elderly (Blazer, 1982). Yet, with appropriate treatment, depressive symptoms generally have a favourable prognosis. Researchers such as Post (1972) and Zung (1980) have emphasized the importance of the premorbid personality in understanding depression and planning its effective treatment. However, personality studies are unpopular and often methodologically unsound. The present study attempts to investigate the problem of the premorbid personality in depressed elderly persons. The total number of severely and moderately depressed elderly persons found in a randomly selected community sample was matched with a group of non-depressed elderly persons on age, sex, marital status, socio-economic class, social support, type of accommodation, previous and present employment, living arrangements, physical morbidity and number of life events. The hypothesis tested was that depressed subjects would differ from non-depressed subjects on the development and functioning of their premorbid personalities. 2015-12-08T06:59:02Z 2015-12-08T06:59:02Z 1983 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15671 eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Clinical Psychology Davidson, Jeremy James Denis Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study |
| title_full | Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study |
| title_fullStr | Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study |
| title_short | Premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives : a retrospective community study |
| title_sort | premorbid personality development and functioning in elderly depressives a retrospective community study |
| topic | Clinical Psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15671 |
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