Features of social and psychological adaptation in patients with depressive disorders

Abstract

The problem of depressive disorders is one of the key problems of modern psychiatry due to the high prevalence, large-scale social losses and negative medical consequences of depression, as well as severe dysfunction of patients, which determines the relevance of the study of socio-psychological adaptation in depressive disorders. The aim of the study: to determine the features of socio-psychological adaptation in patients with depressive disorders, taking into account age and gender Objectives of the study: to define the structure and quantitative indicators of socio-psychological adaptation and analyze its features in patients with depressive disorders in different age groups and taking into account the gender factor. Methods: using diagnostic techniques for socio-psychological adaptation C. Rogers et R.F. Dymond clinically and psychologically examined 107 men and 138 women with depressive disorders. Results. It was found that patients with depressive disorders are characterized by a low level of socio-psychological adaptation, while men have indicators of socio-psychological adaptation are significantly lower than women in terms of adaptability, self-acceptance, acceptance of others, emotional comfort, adaptation, self-acceptance, acceptance of others, as well as on integrated indicators of emotional comfort and internality. Indicators of maladaptation are higher in men than in women: maladaptation, self-rejection, rejection of others, emotional discomfort and external control. There is a tendency to decline the state of socio-psychological adaptation with age, which is manifested by a decrease in older age groups of adaptability, self-acceptance, emotional comfort, adaptation, self-acceptance, and integrated indicators of emotional comfort and internality, and increasing indicators of maladaptation, self-rejection, rejection, external control, payroll and escapism. The most significant violation of socio-psychological adaptation occurs in the age group of 45 years and older.