Effects of mood abnormality on responses to a personality questionnaire

Abstract EN

The effects of depressed, anxious and suspicious moods on pa¬tients' responses to the Eysenck personality Questionnaire was tested in 115 patients suffering from depressive, anxiety and paranoid schiz¬ophrenic disorders.

Patients' personality assessment scores improved when they remitted but did not improve when they failed to remit.

Rela¬tives' assessment of patients' personality yielded scores which were close to patients' own assessment scores after remission.

Because the mood state affects tests designed to measure premorbid personal¬ity traits, caution is necessary in looking for personality disorders dur¬ing disorders which disturb patients' mood