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Manic-depressiveness and its correlates.

M A Thalbourne1, E Keogh, S E Crawley

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Australia. psym-tha@complex.psych.adelaide.edu.au

Psychological Reports
|November 27, 1999
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This study introduces the Manic-Depressiveness Scale, finding it correlates with schizotypal personality traits and neuroticism. The scale helps understand personality variations related to mood disorders.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Personality Studies

Background:

  • Manic-depressive psychosis represents one extreme of a hypothesized personality continuum.
  • Understanding this continuum requires validated measurement tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate the Manic-Depressiveness Scale.
  • To explore the relationship between manic-depressiveness and other personality and psychological variables.

Main Methods:

  • Administered the Manic-Depressiveness Scale to 250 undergraduate psychology students.
  • Utilized the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Revised) and 12 other measures.
  • Analyzed correlations between the Manic-Depressiveness Scale and other variables.

Main Results:

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  • The total Manic-Depressiveness Scale scores correlated significantly with Schizotypal Personality, Neuroticism, Magical Ideation, Mystical Experience, Belief in the Paranormal, absence of Social Naïveté, and Psychoticism.
  • Manic Experience subscale correlated with Creative Personality.
  • Depressive Experience subscale correlated with introversion.

Conclusions:

  • The Manic-Depressiveness Scale effectively measures a personality continuum related to mood disorders.
  • Significant associations were found between manic-depressiveness and schizotypy, neuroticism, and psychoticism.
  • The scale provides a nuanced understanding of personality variations within the manic-depressive spectrum.