This study systematically tested whether the use of specific technologies or media (including certain types of Facebook use), technology-related anxieties, and technology-related attitudes (including multitasking preference) would predict clinical symptoms of six personality disorders (schizoid, narcissistic, antisocial, compulsive, paranoid and histrionic) and three mood disorders (major depre...

This study presents the first validity and reliability data for the trait subscale, T-Dep, of the Spanish Experimental Version of the State and Trait Depression Questionnaire, ST-Dep: Euthymia and Dysthymia (Ritterband and Spielberger, 1996; Spielberger, 1999). The data were obtained from a sample of 264 university students. The internal consistency values for the T-Dep were high (.95). The con...

BACKGROUND Most of the available evidence on the effects of depression is based on in- and out-patient samples focusing on individuals suffering from major depression. The aims of this study were to examine cognitive functioning in population-based samples and to determine whether cognitive performance varies as a function of depression subgroup. METHOD Population-based samples (aged 20-64 ye...

BACKGROUND Although several studies have shown that life adversities play an important role in the etiology and maintenance of both depressive and anxiety disorders, little is known about the relative specificity of several types of life adversities to different forms of depressive and anxiety disorder and the concurrent role of neuroticism. Few studies have investigated whether clustering of l...

Background. Major depression is often chronic or recurrent and is usually treated within primary care. Little is known about the associated morbidity and costs. Objectives. To determine socio-demographic characteristics of people with chronic or recurrent depression in primary care and associated morbidity, service use, and costs. Method. 558 participants were recruited from 42 GP practices in ...

CONTEXT Literature is inconsistent about the role of gender in mediating the relationship between life events and depression. AIM Our objective was to explore gender differences in patterns and frequencies of stressful life events before onset of a depressive episode. SETTING AND DESIGN Cross-sectional study at a tertiary care center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred patients fulfilling D...

Anticipation for future affective events and prediction uncertainty were examined in healthy controls and individuals with dysthymia (DYS) using behavioral responses and the contingent negative variation (CNV) and post-imperative negative variation (PINV) event-related potential (ERP) components. Warning stimuli forecasted the valence of subsequently presented adjectives ("+", positive; "=", ne...

Depressed pregnant women were classified as dysthymic or major depression disorder based on the Structured Clinical Interview for Depression and followed to the newborn period. The newborns of dysthymic versus major depression disorder mothers had a significantly shorter gestational age, a lower birthweight, shorter birth length and less optimal obstetric complications scores. The neonates of d...