Table 2.

Antenatally measured psychiatric and personality factors correlate with postnatal depressive symptoms. Personality factors are stronger predictors of postnatal depression symptom score than history of mood disorder, and are comparable in predictive value to the antenatal depression score. ASQ is the strongest predictor of the three personality dimensions tested. For purposes of comparison, correlations between current best clinical predictors (history of mood disorder and antenatal depression) and depression symptom scores are also shown. The predictive value of the ASQ for mean postpartum depression scores is similar to that of mean ante-partum depression scores (both EPDS and CESD). Pearson Correlations.

	Probed personality traits			Comparison with existing predictors
	VPSQ	DAS24	ASQ	Mood dis- order hx	Intake EPDS	Intake CESD
EPDS mean 3m	0.474***	0.474***	0.516***	0.321***	0.553***
CESD mean 3m	0.378***	0.479***	0.558***	0.346***		0.561***
EPDS mean 6m	0.425***	0.409***	0.435***	0.350***	0.498***
CESD mean 6m	0.341***	0.440***	0.507***	0.372***		0.501***

^**p ≤ 0.01;

^*p ≤ 0.05

^***p ≤ 0.001;