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Profile of discrete emotions in affective disorders in older primary care patients
Author(s)	Larry Seidlitz, Jeffrey M Lyness, Yeates Conwell
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 5, October 2001
Pages	pp 643-651
Keywords	Depression ; Affective disorders ; Emotions ; Patients ; General practice ; United States of America.
Annotation	146 older primary care patients pre-screened with a depression questionnaire completed a diagnostic interview and an emotions questionnaire. These participants were classified into three groups: 13 with major depressive disorder; 11 with minor depression; and the remainder with no current or past episodes of depression. The research examined whether the frequencies of specific emotions are associated with major or minor depression. Major depressives differed from non-depressed controls in nine emotions, in particular sadness, joy and interest - but not anger, fear or guilt. Minor depressives differed from controls in four emotions, in particular sadness and inner-directed hostility - but not in guilt, anger, fear, joy or interest. Thus, the frequencies of discrete emotions are differentially associated with major and minor depression. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-011129215 A
Classmark	ENR: ELA: DL: LF: L5: 7T
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