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Depression is often complicated by concurrent personality dysfunction, which poses significant challenges for clinicians and researchers. Complicated depression is thus broadly presented as a useful clinical and scientific entity, describing clients presenting with depressive symptoms that are further complicated by personality dysfunction or personality pathology. The article introduces a collection of research-based papers addressing the clinical management of patients with complicated depression. The articles in the issue provide an up-to-date framework for understanding different forms of complicated depression and provide useful clinical information to illuminate the treatment of clients presenting with difficulties at the intersection of depression and personality dysfunction.

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Este artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio no experimental de tipo correlacional, cuyo objetivo fue determinar la relación entre los patrones de personalidad patológica y la ansiedad estado-rasgo en un grupo de 120 estudiantes de psicología de una universidad colombiana. Los estudiantes tuvieron un rango de edad entre 18 y 40 años y un nivel de escolaridad entre primero y décimo semestre. Los instrumentos utilizados fueron el Inventario Clínico Multiaxial de Millon III y el Inventario de Ansiedad Rasgo-Estado. El análisis de resultados se realizó a partir del coeficiente de correlación de Spearman, y se encontró una correlación positiva entre la presencia de patrones de personalidad agresivo (sádico), límite y distímico y las puntuaciones elevadas en ansiedad rasgo.

This articule presents the results of a nonexperimental correlational study, which objective was to determine the relationship between pathological personality patterns and state-trait anxiety in a group of 120 psychology students at a university in Colombia, with ages between 18 and 40 years and schooling levels between first and tenth semester. The instruments used were the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory III and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Spearman correlation coefficient was calculated, indicating a positive correlation between the presence of aggressive personality patterns (sadistic), borderline and dysthymic, and high scores on trait anxiety.