“…Personality, defined as a pervasive pattern of perception, behaviour, and inner experience characterizing a given individual (Costa & McCrae, 1985), has been related to speed of MD treatment response, the number of depressive recurrences, and short and long-term treatment outcome (Bagby, Joffe, Parker, Kalemba, & Harkness, 1995;Berlanga, Heinze, Torres, Apequian, & Caballero, 1999;Zuroff & Blatt, 2002). Similarly, the number and severity of stressful Personality, Stressful Life Events, and Depression 2 life events experienced by an individual has been shown to predict treatment outcome and speed of treatment response in MD (McQuaid, Monroe, Roberts, Kupfer, & Frank, 2000;Monroe, Kupfer, & Frank, 1992).…”