Comparison of Early and Late Onset Dysthymia
作者:
JAMES McCULLOUGH,
JAMES BRAITH,
REES CHAPMAN,
MATTHEW KASNETZ,
KAREN CARR,
JAMES CONES,
JEFFREY FIELO,
OWEN SHOEMAKER,
WILLIAM ROBERTS,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 178,
issue 9
页码: 577-581
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1990
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The present investigation compares early and late onset community dysthymia groups on insidious onset patterns, cognitive, coping, and symptom measures testing the assumption implicit in DSM-III-R that the two groups are qualitatively dissimilar. The results suggest that, regardless of age of onset, the groups did not differ except on some features of coping style. Homogeneity, not heterogeneity, was the predominant finding. The results call into question the DSM-III-R procedure for classifying dysthymia by age of onset, but also point to the need for additional research.
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