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Personality features of patients with mixed and pure manic episodes
1University Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany. peter.brieger@medizin.uni-halle.de
Objective:
To test the hypothesis that patients with a mixed manic episode show different personality features than patients with a pure manic episode.
Method:
Sixteen patients with a mixed manic episode (broad criteria) and 26 patients with a pure manic episode were assessed with diagnostic interviews (SCID I/II) as well as instruments for depression, mania and personality.
Results:
Even after controlling for age as well as depression and mania score at assessment, no differences between the two groups emerged concerning either personality features as assessed with the NEO-five-factor inventory (NEO-FFI) or personality disorders.
Conclusion:
We found no difference between patients with mixed mania and patients with pure mania concerning their personality features. Possible reasons for this are being discussed.