The theories of personality and depression

DEPRESSION : TRAIT THEORY VS . SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY

Depression is a mental dis that involves the body , the mood and thoughts ' of the person suffering from it (National Institute of Mental Health . It is an illness that is reflected by the feelings of sadness guilty feelings , loss of interest or pleasure on something or a feeling of low self-worth (World Health Organization . World Health Organization also associates the biological changes in the person suffering from depressive dis like low energy , poor concentration and poor appetite including disturbed sleep . Depression is also categorized based

br on frequency or persistence of its occurrence and its severity and number of symptoms experienced or exhibited by the patient . Based on these grounds , depression is categorized as major depression , dysthymia and bipolar dis

Major Depression is a severe type of depressive dis that affects the person 's sleeping and eating abilities including his work , his studies and the loss of pleasure with other activities . According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIH , depressive episodes of this type may be experienced only once but more commonly at several times during the person 's lifetime . On the other hand , dysthymia is the type that involves long-term chronic symptoms that do not disable (NIH Bipolar Dis is a less severe depressive dis wherein the person experiences both severe high moods called mania and severe low moods called depression . For this reason , Bipolar Dis is also referred to as manic-depressive illness . NIH stressed that mania affects the thinking and judging ability of the person which when left untreated may lead to psychotic dis . Persons in manic moods tend to be overactive and have noticeable high energy . The switching of manic and depressive moods is commonly gradual but there are cases where it occurs in dramatic and rapid cycle . Depression can become chronic or recurrent substantially impairing an individual 's ability to cope with daily life (World Health Organization

TRAIT THEORY OF PERSONALITY AND DEPRESSION

Relative to depression and its causes , personality trait theory has offered simple explanations that point to the cause of depressive dis . Using traits collectively known as the Big Five (Boeree George C ) Using the official definition of the American Psychiatric Association (APA ) set forth in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM , personality traits are "prominent aspects of personality that are exhibited in a wide range of important social and personal contexts Traits therefore being defined in this context suggest that they are contributors to the general behavior exhibited by the person

In the efforts to offer explanation of the causes and nature of depression , there have been several versions of Personality Trait Theory that has been developed and used by psychologists . The Personality Trait Theory developed by Carl Jung has been one of the earliest versions wherein Jung asserts traits as inborn , which means that they are inherited or genetically defined and were referred to by Jung as temperaments (Phares , J .E . 1991 . In another version , Hans Eysenck argued that there are only three dimensions of...