Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to postnatal depression

Jones, Lisa, Scott, Janet, Cooper, Caroline, Forty, Elizabeth, Smith, Katherine Gordon, Sham, Pak, Farmer, Anne, McGuffin, Peter, Craddock, Nicholas John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-0610 and Jones, Ian Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5821-5889 2010. Cognitive style, personality and vulnerability to postnatal depression. British Journal of Psychiatry 196 (3) , pp. 200-205. 10.1192/bjp.bp.109.064683

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Abstract

Background: Only some women with recurrent major depressive disorder experience postnatal episodes. Personality and/or cognitive styles might increase the likelihood of experiencing postnatal depression. Aims: To establish whether personality and cognitive style predicts vulnerability to postnatal episodes over and above their known relationship to depression in general. Method: We compared personality and cognitive style in women with recurrent major depressive disorder who had experienced one or more postnatal episodes (postnatal depression (PND) group, n=143) with healthy female controls (control group, n=173). We also examined parous women with recurrent major depressive disorder who experienced no perinatal episodes (non-postnatal depression (NPND) group, n=131). Results: The PND group had higher levels of neuroticism and dysfunctional beliefs, and lower self-esteem than the control group. However, there were no significant differences between the PND and NPND groups. Conclusions: Established personality and cognitive vulnerabilities for depression were reported by women with a history of postnatal depression, but there was no evidence that any of these traits or styles confer a specific risk for the postnatal onset of episodes.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Publisher:	Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN:	0007-1250
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28893

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