between personality and depressive disorders can help elucidate more proximal processes involved in the development of mood disorders (Compas et al. 2004, Klein et al. 2008a, Lahey 2009). Fourth, personality may be useful in tailoring treatment (Zinbarg et al. 2008) and predicting treatment response (Quilty et al. 2008a). Fifth, temperament/personality may provide a means to identify at-risk individuals who could benefit from prevention and early intervention efforts (Kovacs & Lopez-Duran 2010). Finally, there is substantial comorbidity between depressive disorders and other forms of psychopathology. Some personality traits, such as neuroticism, are associated with multiple psychiatric conditions. Thus, personality could help explain patterns of comorbidity and point toward more etiologically relevant classification systems (Brown & Barlow 2009, Kotov et al. 2007, Watson 2009).
