Table 2.
Personality change in comorbid personality disorder/major depressive patients whose depression did or did not remit over six years.
| PD/MDD at baseline, No MDD at Year 6 | PD/MDD at baseline, MDD at Year 6 | Significance Test | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Correlation (r), Baseline to Year 6 | Mean | SD | Correlation (r), Baseline to Year 6 | t statistic | Df | p | |
| Number of Personality Disorder Symptoms | |||||||||
| Baseline | 30.67 | 12.96 | .42 | 32.45 | 12.55 | .58 | −1.00 | 245 | n.s. |
| Year 6 | 13.05 | 12.74 | 20.89 | 11.86 | −4.50 | 239 | < .001 | ||
| NEO Trait Domains, Absolute value of Change | |||||||||
| Neuroticism | 11.17 | 8.45 | .56 | 8.12 | 6.85 | .51 | 2.20 | 163 | < .029 |
| Extroversion | 8.00 | 7.03 | .64 | 7.27 | 5.84 | .70 | 0.61 | 159 | n.s. |
| Openness | 6.78 | 5.14 | .76 | 6.89 | 5.47 | .82 | −0.11 | 160 | n.s. |
| Agreeableness | 7.16 | 7.61 | .70 | 6.75 | 5.74 | .73 | 0.34 | 162 | n.s. |
| Conscientiousness | 10.27 | 8.47 | .62 | 8.37 | 7.61 | .60 | 1.27 | 155 | n.s. |
Note: No stability correlations were significantly different in two-tailed Z-tests