personality disorder does not suddenly emerge at age eighteen years old. there are obvious links between early childhood temperament and the development of personality traits in later childhood. nevertheless, clinicians do not routinely assess aspects of a child’s personality as part of a mental health examination. this may stem from a fear of ‘labelling’ a child should any problems in personal...

We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was found, in that the number of overcontrollers and...

Agile methodologies are changing the way we develop software. Their emphasis on teamoriented development, joint code ownership, and reliance on people rather than predefined processes to guide activities, is transforming software development into a socio-technical process. As methodologies become increasingly more people and team-oriented, there is an urgent need to investigate the personality ...

This article outlines the ongoing work in relation to personality and programming ability. Previous work by the author focussed on code review and personality, discovering that certain personality factors were correlated with performance on a code review task. The current work is more concerned with code comprehension ability. In addition to the personality factors mentioned above, experience, ...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship of consumer personality trait, brand personality and brand loyalty. Design/methodology/approach – The convenience sampling method was used to collect primary data. A total of 400 adult consumers were interviewed who looked round or bought toys and video games in Taipei City Mall, and 387 effective questionnaires were collected; ...

Theories of personality and personality disorders are increasingly considering the centrality of emotion regulation and its dimensions. Impulsivity as well is recognized as a personality trait underlying diverse symptom presentations. Although research in this field has mainly regarded borderline personality disorder, recent studies supported the association of both emotion dysregulation and im...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the frequency of personality disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and in a group of healthy controls. METHODS Patients affected by PD diagnosed according to the United Kingdom Parkinson's disease Society Brain Bank diagnostic criteria and a group of healthy controls were enrolled in the study. PD patients with cognitive impairment were excluded from the study....

Furthermore, by using [2, p. 230, (1)] a computable representation for the G-function in (1) (and hence also for F,112(s)) may be given in terms of essentially a linear combination of four hypergeometric functions OF3[b2s2 /16] provided that no two of the parameters {1, 1 1+v-P1v-P) differ by an integer. This result for Fv-112(s) is given (correctly) in [3, p. 353, (9)] so that the proposed int...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the presented studies was to empirically analyze the relation between the symptoms of personality disorders and the structure of identity-related senses. The analyses were conducted within two models - based on Millon's theory of personality and DSM-IV personality disorder classification system. METHODS In the studies, a total of 197 university students of various majors...