Personality, negative social interactions, and depressive symptoms.

Abstract

The present study examined the associations among the frequency of negative social interactions, personality traits, and depressive symptoms in university students. Subjects completed measures of negative social interactions, sociotropy, autonomy, perfectionism, and depressive symptoms. It was found in the total sample that higher depression symptoms scores were correlated significantly with the frequency of negative social interactions, sociotropy, autonomy, and socially prescribed perfection-ism. Additional results indicated that the frequency of negative social interactions accounted for unique variance in depressive symptoms over and above the variance predicted by personality traits, but it did not interact with these personality traits to predict unique variance in de-