Short Article
M N Dmitriev, E A Nikitenko an
Abstract
Personality traits, including temperament, can be considered as predictors of the development of affective disorders. There is a relationship of types of affective temperament and variants of emotional and anxiety disorders. It is a common pathology among medical students which is detected in different countries. Ethnic and cultural characteristics of the region should be taken into account when conducting psychometric studies. Hyperthymic temperament can be considered as a predisposing factor to the development of bipolar disorder. In Bulgaria, where the language is similar in linguistic structure to the Russian, hyperthymic temperament was more common in healthy people. The frequency of detection of hypomania by The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) exceeded 50%, in Russia, when medical students were screened in last years. Frequent comorbidity of anxiety disorders was found in medical students with hypomania. This may indicate a high risk of mixed affective states as sign of bipolar spectrum disorders. Our data in 2015-2019 years showed that bipolar spectrum disorders predominate among all emotional disorders in medical students. It can be latent for several years, masked as personal or neurotic stress induced experiences.