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- Title
Age and Remission of Personality Pathology in the Psychotic Disorders Compared to Mood and/or Anxiety Disorders.
- Authors
Zhang, Tianhong; Good, Mary-Jo D.; Good, Byron J.; Chow, Annabelle; Wang, Lanlan; Dai, Yunfei; Xiao, Zeping
- Abstract
In order to explore age-related differences in personality pathology between psychotic disorder (PSD) and mood and/or anxiety disorder (MAD) among psychiatric outpatients, 2,354 subjects were sampled randomly from outpatients in Shanghai and divided into two groups: PSD (N = 951) and MAD (N = 1403). Dimensional scores for personality disorder (PD) traits were assessed by using a self-reported personality diagnostic questionnaire (PDQ4+). Significant age differences were observed in most of the PD traits in MAD patients. Cluster B and C PD traits displayed an apparent decrease with age in MAD group, but such decline trend was not evident in PSD group. In both groups, the decline of self-reported Cluster A PD traits were less visible than the other clusters. Age-related mellowing of some PD traits such as “dramatic, erratic, anxious” occurred primarily in MAD patients; however the same traits in PSD patients appear to be less resistant to aging. Besides, “old eccentric” PD traits in both MAD and PSD patients seem to be maintained and less modified by aging.
- Subjects
CHINA; ANTISOCIAL personality disorders; AFFECTIVE disorders; AGING; ANXIETY; CONVALESCENCE; PSYCHOSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; PROGNOSIS
- Publication
International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 2012, Vol 44, Issue 3, p241
- ISSN
0091-2174
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2190/PM.44.3.e