[Personality traits in depressive adolescents (diagnosis and prognosis]

The youthful depressions without psychotic symptoms are very similar in respect to syndrome appearance that makes it difficult to elucidate their nosologic origin and prognosis. To differentiate a diagnosis, psychodiagnostic methods--Cloninger personality inventory (TCI-125) and Raine Schizotypic Personality Questionnaire (SPQ-74)--were administered, along with clinico-psychopathological approach, in 144 patients with depression, aged 16-25 years. The data obtained allowed to detect statistically significant personality traits corresponding to 3 nosologic groups: slow progressive schizophrenia (schizotypic disorder), psychopathy (personality disorder) on the formation stage, adolescence cyclothymia. According to constitutional personality peculiarities, passive and mosaic schizoids predominated in schizophrenia, emotionally unstable, hysteric sensitive and hysteric psychasthenics--in psychopathia and sensitive schizoids and psychostenic type persons--in adolescence cyclotihymia. Correlations between TCI-125 and SPQ-74 scales and data obtained using clinico-psychopathological evaluation were found that indicated higher significance of combined psychological and clinical approach.