Diagnostic interview (based on ICD-10) – 125 symptoms (Stress Syndrome, Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Depressive Episode); Types of Affectivity Scale (Kovalevskaya, 2006), Pictogrammes Test (Luria, 1961); statistical analysis.

A total of 175 out-patients with stress-related disorders have been investigated - 104 females and 71 males, mean age-33.9+10.6. Mean duration of disorder – 11.5+11.3 months. Psychic traumas: family conflicts – 70.3%, sever relations – 15.4%, death of a close person – 4,6%, severe disease of a close person – 4%, occupational conflicts – 1%. The results have shown three affective ways of psychic trauma fixation and disorders persistence – in anxious, melancholic and apathetic type. In elaboration of affective model of stress-related depression an integration of psychopathological and psychological results for statistical analysis was applied. The characteristic features in clinical symptoms, affectivity traits and psychic trauma perception variants of each type of affective spectrum revealed.

The results of the study have shown three types of affectivity in heterogeneous group of stress related disorders –anxious, melancholic and apathetic. The integrated clinical and psychological (state-trait) diagnosis of the spectrum variants is the basis for the individually directed complex therapy and rehabilitation.