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[Heterogeneity of the depressive mood. Construction of a polydimensional scale]
R Jouvent1, P Hardy, M Bouvard
1INSERM U 302 Psychopathologie et Psychopharmacologie des comportements, La Salpétrière, Paris.
L'Encephale
|July 1, 1987
Abstract:
The evaluation of depressive mood implies several levels of the clinician's inferences: behaviour observation, subjective experience report, affective communication... The authors report the first stages in the construction of a specific depressive mood scale administered to a major depressive disorder population of 52 patients meeting DSM III criteria. The principal component analysis splits mood into three main factors: dysphoria, expressed sadness, emotional blunting. These various emotional dimensions should be taken into account for the analysis of drugs effects.