Abstract
In this article, relations between the Mood Related subscale of the Pleasant Events Schedule (PES), depression, and other psychopathology are studied. One hundred psychiatric inpatients and outpatients had diagnoses of either major, nonmajor. or no depression. All completed the PES, the Beck Depression Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and the Dutch Personality Questionnaire. Results showed that the PES correlated negatively with depression as well as with anxiety and (social) neuroticism. Principal components analysis revealed two factors, negative and positive affect. The latter was dominated by PES scores. Using factor scores, the three diagnostic groups could be meaningfully discriminated. It is concluded that depression may be better described using two affect dimensions rather than one.
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