[Dysthymia and other depressive disorders: study on personality].

This work presents the results of an investigation made on a sample of depressive patients divided in two groups, one of them made up of dysthymics, another of patients diagnosed of any kind of depressive disease (in both cases following the ICD-10criteria). To all those patients it was realized the 16-PF personality questionnaire by RB Catwell. We analyse and compare one by one, the personality traits studied in the proof, specially the untuactions obtained for the patients grouping them im "means" and "extremes"; the conclusion is that with more frequency that in the rest of depressive patients, in the dysthymic group appear extreme values.