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S26.02 - Temperament, personality and depressions: The case of the melancholic type
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
The melancholic type is a phenomenological construct useful to recognize and assess persons vulnerable to develop major depression. Its main features are consciousness, orderliness, hyper-heteronomia and intolerance of ambiguity. These features, which mainly describe the social behaviour and the value system of these persons, were first described in qualitative studies mainly developed in Continental and Japanese psychopathology, and later established through quantitative research. The evolution of this construct nicely illustrates how qualitative and quantitative methods may be integrated in an epistemologically sound research agenda.
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- Symposium: Preventing depression
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 23 , Issue S2: 16th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 16th AEP Congress , April 2008 , pp. S40
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2008
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