Challenging predictions between affective

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International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice

ISSN: 1365-1501 (Print) 1471-1788 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ijpc20

Challenging predictions between affective temperaments, depression and anxiety in a Kosovo student community sample Mimoza Shahini, Merita Shala, Pajtim Xhylani, Shkumbin Gashi, Islam Borinca & Andreas Erfurth To cite this article: Mimoza Shahini, Merita Shala, Pajtim Xhylani, Shkumbin Gashi, Islam Borinca & Andreas Erfurth (2018): Challenging predictions between affective temperaments, depression and anxiety in a Kosovo student community sample, International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, DOI: 10.1080/13651501.2018.1426771 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/13651501.2018.1426771

Published online: 26 Jan 2018.

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1080/13651501.2018.1426771

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Challenging predictions between affective temperaments, depression and anxiety in a Kosovo student community sample Mimoza Shahinia, Merita Shalaa, Pajtim Xhylanib, Shkumbin Gashib, Islam Borincac and Andreas Erfurthd a University of Mitrovica ‘Isa Boletini’, Mitrovica, Kosovo; bUniversity of Prishtina ‘Hasan Prishtina’, Pristina, Kosovo; cUniversity of Geneva, ohe Otto-Wagner-Spital, Vienna, Austria Geneva, Switzerland; dSozialmedizinisches Zentrum Baumgartner H€

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Objective: The relationship between temperament and mental health problems is seen very important as we hope to explain the trajectory of this interaction. The aim of this study was to test the validity of affective temperaments for predicting psychiatric morbidity, by explaining the relationships between temperament, anxiety and depression in a community sample. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. The present sample consisted of 960 participants (347 male, 622 female) with a mean age of M ¼ 28.4 (SD ¼ 10) randomly recruited. Affective temperaments were measured by the brief version of TEMPS-A, depression and anxiety measured with Beck Depression Inventory and Beck Anxiety Inventory. Results: The Cronbach alpha reliability coefficients for affective temperaments were between .72 and .81, for BDI and BAI, were .88 and .90. The study found significant gender differences on depressive [t(959) ¼ –4.2, p