[Relationship between anhedonia, affective dependency and autonomy in health subjects]

Several authors have suggested that anbedonia, autonomy and interpersonal dependency could characterize personality of subjects prone to depression. We have studied in a group of 117 healthy subjects the Pearson correlation coefficients between two anbedonia scales (Physical Anbedonia Scale or PAS, Fawcett Clark Pleasure Capacity Scale-Physical Pleasure or FCPCS-PP) and the three sub-scales of the Interpersonal Dependency Inventory (IDI) (two rating dependency and one rating autonomy). The results have shown a significant correlation between the PAS and the autonomy sub-scale of the IDI. Anbedonia and autonomy could characterized a particular profile of personality.