Personality and Depression
Published 1 January 1993
Robert M. A. Hirschfeld
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Abstract
Clinical observers and theorists have written extensively on the relationship between personality and depression. Psychoanalytic theorists have described the depression-prone personality as one characterized by high dependency on others for support and approval, low frustration tolerance, and labile self-esteem (Chodoff 1972). Social learning theorists have emphasized constricted social skills and behaviors (Lewinsohn 1974), and other behavioral psychologists have focused on deficits in learning mastery (Seligman 1974). Cognitive theorists have described a pessimistic, negative perception of self and the world (Beck 1972).
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