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Gupta S, Basak P. Depression and type D personality among undergraduate medical students. Indian J Psychiatry. 2013;55(3):287-9doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.117151.
Gupta, S., & Basak, P. (2013). Depression and type D personality among undergraduate medical students. Indian journal of psychiatry, 55(3), 287-9. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.117151
Gupta, Soma, and Basak, Prosenjit. "Depression and type D personality among undergraduate medical students." Indian journal of psychiatry vol. 55,3 (2013): 287-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.117151
Gupta S, Basak P. Depression and type D personality among undergraduate medical students. Indian J Psychiatry. 2013 Jul;55(3):287-9. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.117151. PMID: 24082252; PMCID: PMC3777353.
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Indian J Psychiatry. 2013 Jul;55(3):287-9. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.117151.

Depression and type D personality among undergraduate medical students.

Indian journal of psychiatry

Soma Gupta, Prosenjit Basak

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biochemistry and Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.

PMID: 24082252 PMCID: PMC3777353 DOI: 10.4103/0019-5545.117151

Abstract

CONTEXT: Academic pressure, though established, is an unavoidable cause of depression in medical students. Role of Type D personality as determinant of depression is a new approach to the problem.

AIM: Determination of relationship between Type D personality and Depression among medical students.

SETTING AND DESIGN: Undergraduate students (both male and female, total 150) of Midnapore Medical College.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Beck Depression Inventory for depression and DS 14 for type D personality.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: The scores were expressed as mean + SD. The significance of difference between the scores was done by Fisher's 2 sample t test.

RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Prevalence rate of depression was 45.3%, which was mostly of mild type (34%). Type D personality was present in 70% cases of which 15.3% had only negative affectivity, 23.3% had only social inhibition and 31% had both the components. Both depression & Type D personality were present in 36% cases. Negative affectivity component was significantly associated with depression which could be therapeutically controlled.

Keywords: Depression; medical students; type D personality

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