Self-Esteem, Vulnerability and Psychiatric Disorder in the Community

Ingham, J. G.; Kreitman, Norman; Miller, Patrick; Sashidharan, S. P.; Surtees, Paul G.

doi:10.1192/bjp.148.4.375

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“…and the experience of stressful life events. Also, Brown et al [1986] and Ingham et al [1986] have dem onstrated the relationship of low self-esteem to the risk of an individual becoming depressed.…”

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Personality Variables in Depressed Patients and Normal Controls

Roy

1990

Neuropsychobiology

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Depressed patients (n = 46) were compared with normal controls (n = 42) for their scores on 7 personality variables measured on 4 personality questionnaires. The scores of the depressed patients obtained during the index depressive episode were significantly higher for introversion, neuroticism, and hostility, and significantly lower for self-esteem, than those of controls. Similarly, a subset of the female depressed patients studied when in remission and euthymic also had significantly higher socres than female controls for neuroticism and hostility, with a trend for significantly lower self-esteem scores. There were no significant differences on any of the 7 personality variables measured between depressed patients, with and without melancholia, or between patients with either unipolar or bipolar depression.

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Personality Variables in Depressed Patients and Normal Controls

Roy

1990

Neuropsychobiology

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“…Chronic mental illness has generally been associated with poor quality of life and low self-esteem (Greco & Stein, 1980;Ingham, Kreitman, Miller, Sashidharan, & Surtees, 1986;Lehman, Possidente, & Hawker, 1986). Unemployment, as well as poverty, social stigma, hospitalizations, symptoms, and medication side effects have been identified as contributing to lower quality of life (Lehman, 1983a;Sullivan, Wells, & Leake, 1992).…”

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Quality of life and self-esteem in working and nonworking persons with mental illness

Dongen

1996

Community Ment Health J

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The purposes of this research were to examine first the relationship between work status and quality of life and self-esteem in persons with severe, persistent mental illness and secondly, the relationship between (a) demographic characteristics, attitudes toward psychotropic medications, and perceptions of the meaning of work and (b) quality of life and self-esteem in working and nonworking persons with severe mental illness. The sample included 92 persons (51 workers and 41 nonworkers). Instruments included the quality of Life (QOL) Interview (Lehman, 1983), Rosenberg's (1965) Self-Esteem Inventory, the Drug Attitude Inventory (DAI) (Hogan, 1983), and a Perception of Work instrument, developed by the researcher. Workers reported significantly higher self-esteem than did nonworkers (t = 2.17, df = 90, p = .033). A significant difference in overall QOL was not found, but workers scored higher on all but one QOL subscale. There were no significant differences in self-esteem, QOL, or valuing of work based on demographic factors. No significant differences in drug attitudes were found based on work status. Workers rated the importance of work higher than did nonworkers (t = 6.46, df = 90, p = .000). Analysis of qualitative data revealed that contrary to the nonworkers' fears, workers reported that work provided a distraction from symptoms and contributed to better mental health.

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“…Numerous studies of SE have been performed across many fields such as clinical and social psychology. Some previous studies in Europe and America, for instance, showed that high levels of SE have a negative relationship with delinquency (Rosenberg & Rosenberg, 1978), anxiety disorders (Ingham et al, 1986), eating disorders (Kendler et al, 1991), and major depression (Brown et al, 1986). Some previous studies in Japan also showed that high levels of SE have a negative relationship with loneliness (Kudou & Nisikawa, 1983), anthrophobic-tendency (Okada & Nagai, 1989), conformity (Kurosawa, 1993) and shyness (Aikawa, 1991).…”

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