The Relationship Between Maladaptive Personality and Social Role Impairment in Depressed Older Adults in Primary Care.

CONCLUSION: These results link select personality traits and interpersonal processes to social role impairment, suggesting that these are indicators of personality pathology in older adults. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: These findings lend preliminary support for clinical screening of personality pathology in depressed older adults utilizing both personality trait and process measures. PMID: 30362909 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30362909?dopt=Abstract

Source: Clinical Gerontologist - October 28, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Tags: Clin Gerontol Source Type: research