According to psychobiological model of personality proposed by Cloninger, personality traits characterizing enhanced tendency to novel stimuli, impulsivity and sociability are influenced by dopaminergic system functioning. The present study considered both the main effect of two polymorphic loci ( VNTR and 2319G>A ) in dopamine transporter gene ( DAT1 ) and the role of distinct DAT1 gene haplot...

OBJECTIVE Personality disorder researchers are currently evaluating a range of potential solutions to problems with the DSM-IV diagnostic categories. This article proposes changes to the diagnostic categories and criteria based on empirical findings from a national sample of patients with personality disorder diagnoses. METHOD The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP-200) is a personalit...

The categorical measurement approach implemented by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) personality disorder (PD) diagnostic system is theoretically and pragmatically limited. As a result, many prominent psychologists now advocate for a shift away from this approach in favor of more conceptually sound dimensional measurement. This shift is expected ...

It is investigational as in a modern cultural situation self-education gives an opportunity to social independence and of personality. marked that the system education oriented activity personality, on choice subjects time mastering information. shown democratic type organization deprives personality dependence allows go out her new level spiritual freedom realization creative potential.

by political choice, people achieve the official positions in political system. woman's political participation is one of the most important subjects that has been take attention of scientists and devoted much of sociopolitical topics. parliament provides suitable ground in order to woman's political participation. in this article, by using descriptive and analytical method, the barri...

BACKGROUND Current classifications of personality disorders do not classify severity despite clinical practice favouring such descriptions. AIMS To assess whether an existing measure of severity of personality disorder predicted clinical pathology and societal dysfunction in a community sample. METHOD UK national epidemiological study in which personality status was measured using the scree...

Post-adoption system use is an important factor for realization of the full benefits of information systems. It is thus important to understand users’ innovation with IT. This research attempts to explain how an IT end user’s “moving against people” personality influences innovation in system use in the work system context. Dark side of personality traits research remains understudied and misun...

introduction : comorbidity is a new term in psychiatric nosology which despite its expansive use is not clearly defined. overlapping of axis i and axis ii disorders in multiaxial system of dsm and controversy over which disorders belong to which axis, have also complicated the issue. a number of studies investigating patterns of comorbidity for axis i and axis ii disorders could not find a one ...