BACKGROUND The present study investigated the difference between therapeutic responses of hot and cold temperament patients (based on traditional Persian medicine) with ulcerative colitis to pomegranate peel extract. METHODS Seventy-eight patients with moderate ulcerative colitis based on Lichtiger Colitis Activity Index (LCAI) criteria were randomized to receive an aqueous extract of the Pun...

Temperament has been demonstrated clinically to be linked to mental disorders. We aimed to determine the possible role of temperament in mental disorders in a national epidemiologic study. A nationally representative sample of adults (n=1320) was administered the Lebanese-Arabic version of the Temperament Evaluation of the Memphis, Pisa, Paris and San Diego Autoquestionnaire (TEMPS-A), and the ...

In this study, we analyzed the relationship between temperament and personality factors and depression in children and adolescents. Temperament was assessed with the Dimensions of Temperament Survey Revised (DOTS-R), personality with the Big Five Questionnaire-Children (BFQ-C), and depressive symptomatology with the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). The sample was made up of 535 participan...

To investigate the relationship between maternal depression and infant temperament in a Japanese population, a prospective questionnaire survey was administered in the postpartum period. Postnatal depression was assessed by Zung's (1965) Self-Rating Depression Scale on two occasions (5 days and 12 months after delivery). At 6 months and 18 months after birth, infant temperament was assessed usi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Slow-to-warm-up temperament Shyness Maternal parenting Inhibition Infancy Little is known about slow-to-warm-up temperament in infancy. This study examined the trajectory of shyness in children who were slow-to-warm-up in infancy in comparison to children with other temperament profiles in infancy. Participants were 996 mothers and children in the NICHD SECC stud...

We studied the developmental trends of temperament and character in a longitudinal population-based sample of Finnish men and women aged 20-45 years using the Temperament and Character Inventory model of personality. Personality was assessed in 1997, 2001, and 2007 (n = 2,104, 2,095, and 2,056, respectively). Mean-level changes demonstrated qualitatively distinct developmental patterns for char...

Objective: The present study was carried out to compare emotional and affective temperament in trauma-exposed women with and without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following intimate partner violence. Method: 195 trauma-exposed women with and without PTSD participated in the study, and completed the Affective and Emotional Composite Temperament Scale (AFECTS). Collected data were analyz...

Abstract We evaluated the effect of prematurity and infant’s temperament on mother-infant behaviors in Face-to-Face Still-Face Paradigm (FFSF). The study included 75 mothers their infants (37 preterm 38 term) between three four months age (corrected for infants). responded to a perception scale infants’ dyads were observed structured condition FFSF Paradigm, divided into episodes, made it possi...

Unspecified Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-77682 Accepted Version Originally published at: Ruch, Willibald (1997). Afterword: Laughter and Temperament. In: Ekman, Paul; Rosenberg, E L. What the face reveals : basic and applied studies of spontaneous expression using the facial action coding system (FACS). New York: Oxf...