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Predicting Affective States of Bipolar Disorder by the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality

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In Chinese culture, people appreciate social harmony, which might lead to an emotional fluctuation in bipolar disorder when discordance exists (Chapter “Bipolar Disorders in Chinese Culture: From a Perspective of Harmony”). Chinese patients’ emotional variations might have their cultural-related personality bases. We have tested the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (CADP), and the scales measuring affective states, namely the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ), the Hypomanic Checklist-32 (HCL-32), as well as the Plutchik-van Praag Depression Inventory (PVP) in bipolar I (BD I) and II (BD II) disorder patients, and healthy volunteers. We found that both BD I and BD II groups got higher scores on the mood scales; BD II scored lower on the MDQ, but higher on the HCL-32 and PVP compared with BD I. Interestingly, in BD I, the CADP Intelligent trait predicted MDQ; Agreeable, Emotional and Intelligent traits predicted PVP. While in BD II, Agreeable, Unsocial and Intelligent traits predicted MDQ; Agreeable, Emotional and Intelligent traits predicted HCL-32. Four out of five CADP personality traits were linked with the affective states in patients, but they demonstrated different connections in the two types of bipolar disorder; and a Chinese culture featured similar influence of Intelligent trait on affective states of patients was found.

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Zhang, B., Zhu, J., Wang, W. (2019). Predicting Affective States of Bipolar Disorder by the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality. In: Wang, W. (eds) Chinese Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3537-2_10

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