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Activity level is a core but understudied individual difference. Understanding patterns of physical activity over long periods may be key to understanding why some individuals develop healthy lifestyles. The present study transformed qualitative information from the Terman Life Cycle Study to examin...
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PMID: 20573949
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The findings suggest that the GAD symptom of worry is more akin to a personality trait than an anxiety state in adolescents, which may hold implications for the current nosology and treatment of GAD.
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PMID: 20492844
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These results provide further evidence that neuroticism is a necessary factor in structural theories of mood and anxiety disorders. In this study, the correlation between internalizing psychopathology and neuroticism approached 1.0, suggesting that neuroticism may be the core of internalizing psycho...
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PMID: 19903363
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There has been an exponential increase of interest in the dark side of human nature during the last decade. To better understand this dark side, the authors developed and validated a concise, 12-item measure of the Dark Triad: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism. In 4 studies involving 1,085 p...
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PMID: 20528068
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Personality refers to an individual's enduring and pervasive personal motivation, emotion, interpersonal style, attitudes and behavior that are stable over a long time after young adulthood. In relation to the cancer trajectory, three basic and one other personality traits have been studied with som...
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PMID: 20465385
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A large proportion of the genetic risk for MD that is expressed via personality is captured by N, with a modest amount due to C, and small amounts from O, E and A....
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PMID: 19732485
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In multiple regression analyses, neuroticism was associated with MMSE score independent of depression diagnosis (beta = -0.04, chi2 = 14.2, df = 1, p = 0.0002, 95% confidence interval [CI] = -0.07 to -0.02) and Ham-D score (beta = -0.04, chi2 = 8.97, df = 1, p = 0.003, 95% CI = -0.06 to -0.01). Inte...
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PMID: 20220585
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The total sample GSI effect size was 0.74 indicating a moderate to large effect size (ranging from 0.67 in depressed to 0.74 in neurotic and personality disorder patients), which increased to 1.02 after exclusion of pre-treatment no-cases (ranging from 0.98 to 1.11 in depressed and personality disor...
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PMID: 20392133
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The diagnoses of neurotic diseases, stress related and somatoform disorders (ICD-10 F 40 - 48) were the most prevalent group (48 %) within the sample. It was a statistically significant predictive factor in a later declaration of disability and invalidity. In this diagnosis group (F 40 - 48) more pa...
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PMID: 20178066
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Neurotic excoriations are self-induced skin lesions produced because of compulsive scratching or picking. We present the successful use of the venerable technique of an Unna boot used as an Unna sleeve for neurotic excoriations of the upper extremities.
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PMID: 20408514
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Recent research has indicated that developmental changes in the personality traits of neuroticism and impulsivity correlate with changes in problem drinking during emerging and young adulthood. However, it remains unclear what potential mechanisms, or mediators, could account for these associations....
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PMID: 20141246
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High JH was associated with higher scores on C and E, but the combination of low JH and high SES was associated with higher scores on N....
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PMID: 20100884
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The high prevalence of borderline personality organization confirms the importance of a diagnostic investigation of the psychic structure and the necessity for psychotherapeutic treatment in chronic pain patients....
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PMID: 20229490
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This article analyzed data from the intervention arm of a large treatment trial to demonstrate the importance of clinical severity, course, comorbidity, and treatment response in patient prognosis.
This is a secondary analysis of data from a large primary care-based g...
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PMID: 19798766
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Laboratory, clinical, and pathophysiological methods were used to examine servicemen presenting with hyperuricemia. Pronounced hypersympaticotony was accompanied by stabilization of cardiac rhythm. Neurotic personality profile was identified in 48% of the subjects, psychotic in 17.3%...
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PMID: 21395062
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There were analyzed changes in popularity, structure and clinical peculiarities of neurotic disorders among military servicemen for the period 1986-2006. There were used epidemiological, clinical-archival and clinical-psypathological methods. It was established, that that internosological pathomorph...
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PMID: 20536035
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Evaluation of neurotic disorders (ND) in 168 patients with rheumatoid arthritis revealed them in 65.6% of the cases including 22.6% weak, 31.7% moderate and 14.9% severe ones. Asthenovegetative disorders were most frequently detected (61.3%). They associated with emotional, hypochondriac, hysterical...
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PMID: 20369613
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Results showed both multifactorial (at the level of a lower order) and unifactorial (at the level of an upper order) structure of the GHQ-30....
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PMID: 20672514
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The indication for psychoanalysis in severe depression is not clear. And yet, demands for this type of intervention are increasing, despite the absence of any form of consensus on the subject. Freud considered depression as a failure of analytical efforts and, based on this observation, revised his...
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PMID: 20141799
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The convergent and discriminant validity of Five Factor Model (FFM) personality traits with concurrent and prospective social, work, and recreational dysfunction was assessed in a large, longitudinal clinical sample. Consistent with five factor theoretical expectations, neuroticism is broadly relate...
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PMID: 19817628
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A peer led intervention to enhance disease management self-efficacy had only short-term effects, and FFM personality factors moderated those effects. Measuring personality factors in chronically ill individuals may facilitate targeting of self-management interventions to those most likely to respond...
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PMID: 18808733
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The study highlights the need for services to be aware of the psychological difficulties experienced by this client group. An important finding is that the acceptance of the injury is mediated by negative cognitions of the self which need to be identified as potential risk factors in order to preven...
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PMID: 18983727
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In this study statistically significant differences occur between these two groups of girls which are related to body - image perception and objective position on the body mass index chart. All 91 participants saw themselves as obese. Statistically significant differences occur in body - image disto...
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PMID: 19794346
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We test this hypothesis measuring mental speed by means of three elementary cognitive tasks tapping similar basic processes but varying systematically their content (verbal, numerical, and spatial). Neuroticism and intelligence are also measured. The sample comprised 196 undergraduate psychology stu...
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PMID: 19622320
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High Neuroticism and low Conscientiousness were risk factors for both major and minor depression. Combinations of high Neuroticism with low or high Extraversion or high Openness conferred risk for major depression. Other novel findings for major depression revealed new trait combinations of low Cons...
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PMID: 19554673
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These results were consistent across two independent samples: one with individual employee ratings of manager's leadership styles and the other with aggregate ratings of manager's leadership styles among employees in diverse organizations. Thus, although charismatic and autocratic leader behavior ma...
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PMID: 19594244
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The author traces the development of Freud's conception of the nature and significance of transference in the psychoanalytic process. He notes that from 1910 onward, Freud was convinced that the analysis of the transference is the sole factor involved in the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic trea...
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PMID: 19685817
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We developed and validated the Chinese Questionnaire of Perimenstrual Symptoms (CQ-PERI-MS), which was adapted from the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, and used this instrument to assess the prevalence and nature of perimenstrual symptoms among Chinese women in Hong Kong. The initial CQ-PERI-...
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PMID: 19533490
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The current research employs ideas from terror management theory to investigate why mammograms may be psychologically problematic. This perspective suggests that individuals, particularly those high in neuroticism, are threatened by that which reminds them of their physical and mortal nature. In Stu...
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PMID: 20205012
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In a group of 221 healthy employees of both sexes the relationship between neuroticism, and perceived quality of life (WHOQOL), inadequate work organization (IWO), Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and speed and accuracy of simple reaction time was studied. The level of neuroticism was assessed by Cornel...
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PMID: 19662780
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In a sample of 98 students, scores for extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and a Lie scale were associated with financial behavior, with Lie subscale scores providing the majority of the significant but weak associations.
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PMID: 19708398
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The purpose of this study was to analyze self-concept, self-esteem, and other personality traits and psychopathological symptoms in subjects with and without visual impairment. The sample was made up of 90 participants aged 12 to 17: 61 with no impairment and 29 with visual impairment. The ANOVA sho...
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PMID: 19476228
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Masahiro Suzuki,
Sakae Takahashi,
Eisuke Matsushima,
Masahiko Tsunoda,
Masayoshi Kurachi,
Takashi Okada,
Takuji Hayashi,
Yohei Ishii,
Kiichiro Morita,
Hisao Maeda,
Seiji Katayama,
Ryuzou Kawahara,
Tatsui Otsuka,
Yoshio Hirayasu,
Mizuho Sekine,
Yoshiro Okubo,
Mai Motoshita,
Katsuya Ohta,
Makoto Uchiyama and
Takuya Kojima
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We identified that exploratory eye movement (EEM) dysfunction appears to be specific to schizophrenia. The availability of a biological marker specific to schizophrenia would be useful for clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia. Consequently, we performed the discriminant analysis between schizophrenic...
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PMID: 19165524
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Our findings are discussed in the context of how stress may impact cognitive performance and cause dysfunction of neural systems in the brain important for decision making....
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PMID: 19350336
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The concept of 'neurosis' does not have a very high priority in the history of psychiatry. The very few studies of the historical development of the concept are discussed, especially that of Pienero. The relations between psychiatry and neurology in the nineteenth century are described to provide a...
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PMID: 20617639
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Elevated rates of comorbidity between binge eating and alcohol use problems have been widely documented. Prior studies have examined specific personality traits associated with the co-occurrence of these problems. The current study explores comprehensive personality factors that are...
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PMID: 19290698
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We found no association of neuroticism, exposure to stressful life events, and quality of life with atopy and allergic symptoms....
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PMID: 19329381
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We lack knowledge of the temporal stability of major personality dimensions in patients with personality disorders (PDs). The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) is a self-report instrument that operationalizes the Five-Factor Model of personality. This study investigated the relative stabi...
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PMID: 19282686
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After functional status, personality traits were clearly associated with QoL in PD patients. Therefore, they should be taken into account by health-care professionals in their appraisal of patient complaints....
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PMID: 18989757
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The only factor that predicted better versus worse outcome at 1-year post-hospitalization was change in Low Self-Esteem (LSE) from the MMPI-2. Improved LSE from admission to discharge predicted remission at 1-year post-hospitalization, while worsening LSE predicted relapse. Regardless of outcome, NE...
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PMID: 19934624
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A dimensional model of personality disturbance is presented that is defined by extreme values on interacting subsets of seven major personality traits. Being at the extreme has marked effects on the threshold for eliciting those traits under stimulus conditions: that is, the extent to which the envi...
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PMID: 19825256
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The high prevalence of comorbid depression and anxiety among patients with general medical disorders is well known. The impact of the comorbidity on function in these patients is documented extensively. The study of their QoL is an emerging area of work, though its interpretation is controversial. T...
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PMID: 19122537
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We commemorate a special example of such dialogue in remembrance of the rhinolaryngologist Wilhelm Fliess on the occasion of his 150 (th) birthday and 80 (th) anniversary of death in October 2008. CURRICULUM VITAE AND MERITS: Born in Arnswalde (Western Pomerania, today Poland) in 1858, after seconda...
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PMID: 19148850
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This study proposes, tests, and supports the perfectionism model of binge eating (PMOBE), a model aimed at explaining why perfectionism is related to binge eating. According to this model, socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) confers risk for binge eating by generating exposure to...
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PMID: 19254113
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The present study extended previous findings demonstrating self-criticism, assessed by the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) (Weissman AN, Beck AT. Development and validation of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale: a preliminary investigation. Paper presented at the 86th Annual Convention of the Ameri...
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PMID: 19486732
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Multivariate analysis has revealed a relationship of the phase of an ulcerative process and age to the first manifestations of psychopathology, its duration, and gender. Assessment of psychopharmacotherapy in patients with PU has shown the high efficacy of the antidepressant of coaxil in the treatme...
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PMID: 20141013
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There is no evidence that the predisposition of individuals to focus on negative (emotional) stimuli is a possible underlying genetic mechanism of neuroticism....
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PMID: 18377673
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Recent research on autonoetic consciousness indicates that the ability to remember the past and the ability to project oneself into the future are closely related. The purpose of the present study was to confirm this proposition by examining whether the relationship observed between personality and e...
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PMID: 18508283
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Given an increased knowledge for the special requirements of patients with a history of migration in mental health care, different approaches varying between an adaptation of existing systems and the implementation of specialized institutions are being discussed. The present study investigates the t...
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PMID: 18785092
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We posed the following main questions: (i) does the need for social interaction indeed increase in older age? and (ii) is there a defined personality trait that would interact with the level of social interaction? The study was one of a self-reported group survey. A total of 50 women were enrolled,...
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PMID: 19218684
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Rumination and worrying are considered possible mediating variables that may explain the relation between neuroticism and symptoms of depression and anxiety. The current study sought to examine the mediational effects of rumination and worry in the relationships between neuroticism and symptoms of d...
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PMID: 19006785
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