Concordance Between Clinicians' and Patients' Ratings of Anxiety and Depression as Mediated by Private Self-Consciousness

Abstract

This study assesses the relations between the ratings of clinicians and psychiatric inpatients on several anxiety and depression measures, as mediated by private selfconsciousness. The overall concordance between clinicians' and patients' ratings is quite high, particularly on the depression measures. Levels of private selfconsciousness do not appear to mediate concordance of structured behavior or symptom-based ratings of either anxiety or depression; however, there is limited support for levels of private self-consciousness mediating concordance between patients' global ratings of anxiety and clinicians' anxiety ratings.