@article{ref1,
title="Depression and aggression. A control group study on the aggression hypothesis in depressive disorders based on the Buss-Durkee Questionnaire",
journal="Psychiatrische Praxis",
year="1998",
author="Wolfersdorf, Manfred G. and Kiefer, A.",
volume="25",
number="5",
pages="240-245",
abstract="PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to prove the hypothesis that covert or inhibited aggression/hostility as described in psychoanalytic literature is part of the psychogenetic development of depression. METHOD: We compared 50 consecutively admitted depressed inpatients to 50 healthy people of the regionally living general population, matched by sex and age, using the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. RESULTS: Depressed patients have significantly higher values in the BDHI subscales &quot;total aggression&quot;, especially in irritability, negativism, resentment, suspicion and guilt, also in &quot;attitudional component&quot;, &quot;inhibited aggression&quot; and &quot;covert hostility&quot;. No differences were found in &quot;assault&quot; and &quot;indirect aggression&quot;, controls got significantly higher values in &quot;verbal aggression&quot;. A comparison of depressed patients with suicide attempts versus depressed patients without such behaviour showed no significant differences. CONCLUSION: The psychoanalytic hypothesis seems to be useful for depression but not for the suicidal behaviour of depressive patients.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0303-4259",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}