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