The relationship between executive functioning and dissociation.

Relationship Between Executive Functions and Pragmatic Language in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Objectives: Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have problems in communicating and social interaction skills. Moreover, deficits in pragmatic language and executive functions are among the most important causes of communication and social interaction problems in this group. The present study aimed to determine the relationship between executive functioning and two of its indices (behav...

Arts THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING AND DISSOCIATION

The relationship of psychological well-being and executive functions with the mediation of adjustment to the disease in cardiovascular patients

Introduction: The present study aimed to predict psychological well-being based on executive functions with the mediation of adjustment to the disease in cardiovascular patients. Method: The current research method was descriptive and correlational. Three hundred cardiovascular patients referring to Shahid Dr. Qolipour Medical Center in Bukan city were selected by purposive sampling and includ...

Executive functions in students with high functioning autism and educable Down syndrome

Background and Objective: The present study investigated executive functions in students with high functioning autism (HFA) and students with educable Down syndrome (DS) with normal healthy students.     Methods: Fifteen boy students with HFA, 15 boy students with educable intellectual disability and 15 normal healthy boy students (aged between¬ 7-15 years) were recruited from educational se...

Dissociative tendencies and individual differences in high hypnotic suggestibility.

INTRODUCTION Inconsistencies in the relationship between dissociation and hypnosis may result from heterogeneity among highly suggestible individuals, in particular the existence of distinct highly suggestible subtypes that are of relevance to models of psychopathology and the consequences of trauma. This study contrasted highly suggestible subtypes high or low in dissociation on measures of hy...