Dimensions of Manifest Depression in Newly Hospitalized Patients

Abstract

One hundred and fifty-eight newly hospitalized, acutely ill, predominantly schizophrenic patients of both sexes were evaluated in 42 measures of anxiety and/or depression selected from behavioural rating devices in current use. The resulting scores were intercorrelated; a centroid factor analysis and varimax rotation were completed. Ten major areas of depressive symptomatology were delineated, nine of which were comparable to factors isolated in psychiatric ratings of depressed male in-patients. A tenth syndrome not found in samples of depressed subjects was tentatively identified as Regression.