Background: Personality is defined as a set of stable and
enduring psychological qualities that influence an individual's characteristic
pattern of behaviour across different situations and over time. The emergence
of depression and anxiety disorders also seems to cause a temporary and
sometimes permanent alteration in personality features. The objective of the
study is to find out the association between anxiety and depression with
personality facets and domains among rural adolescent boys and girls.
Methods: It was a community-based cross-sectional study
carried out for 12 months from March 2024 to February 2025 among 20 randomly
selected rural schools of Kolar Taluk. Personality was assessed using the
Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5), a 220-item self-report questionnaire
that evaluates 25 personality facets grouped into five broad domains: Negative
Affectivity, Detachment, Antagonism, Disinhibition, and Psychoticism. Anxiety
was measured using the 7-item Generalised Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7), and
depression was assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), which
consists of 21 items. The sample size was calculated based on previous
research. The interview technique collected all the data. Descriptive
statistics will be applied wherever needed to compare groups after checking for
the normality of data. To compare between groups, a t-test and ANOVA were used
with a level of significance defined as a p-value less than 0.05. IEC clearance
was obtained before the start of the study.
Results: 430 rural school children took part in the study.
247 (57.4%) were boys, and 273 (63.5%) belonged to the 10th standard,
120(27.9%) had Moderate anxiety, and 79 (18.4%) had Borderline depression.
Adolescents with severe anxiety had higher scores in facets like Anxiousness,
attention seeking, callousness-anxiety, grandiosity, manipulativeness,
risk-taking, suspiciousness, unusual beliefs and experiences, impulsivity,
perceptual dysregulation, and withdrawal facets. Rural school children with
Mild depression had higher scores in personality facets like anxiousness,
eccentricity, emotional liability, irresponsibility, impulsivity,
perseveration, and suspiciousness.
Conclusion: The present study suggests that mental health
screening at school for anxiety and depression, along with personality
assessment, should be implemented in school mental health programs.
Author(s) Details
Hana Zaiba Z
Department of Community Medicine, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar,
Karnataka, India.
Angayarkanni. P
Department of Community Medicine, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar, Karnataka, India.
Sahana S Murthy
Department of Psychiatry, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar, Karnataka,
India.
Pradeep. TS
Department of Community Medicine, SDUMC, SDUAHER, Kolar,
Karnataka, India
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/aodhr/v4/5863
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