Personality Maladjustments and Mental Hygiene

Health for Effective Living

This encyclopaedic work is divided into six parts, each dealing with a specific study, and includes such divers and informative subjects as dynamics of personality formation and maladjustments, sexual pattern of living, general hygiene and diet, communicable diseases, a short symposium of medicine, a discussion on drugs and international health problems. It will be seen that the scope is both w...

Aggressive behavior of staff members in a neuropsychiatric setting.

Personality and time attitudes.

Sets of personality and time-attitude items were administered to psychiatric hospital patients (»= 100), psychiatric patients in a mental hygiene clinic (»=100), and college male (» = 116) and female (»=192) students. The sets were separately factor analyzed in the total sample, and the data factor scored. Substantial relationships were found between personality and timeattitude factor scores w...

Relation of Psychiatry to Public Health *

An understanding of the social fabric of a community or State is essential for the development of constructive services in public health as well as in psychiatry. The aim herein is to define public health and mental hygiene, emphasizing the key position of the private physician, to discuss interrelationships of problems and services, and to mention some objectives yet to be achieved. No problem...

Males on the life-course-persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways: follow-up at age 26 years.

This article reports a comparison on outcomes of 26-year-old males who were defined several years ago in the Dunedin longitudinal study as exhibiting childhood-onset versus adolescent-onset antisocial behavior and who were indistinguishable on delinquent offending in adolescence. Previous studies of these groups in childhood and adolescence showed that childhood-onset delinquents had inadequate...