Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) have an overlap in both symptoms and risk factors, suggesting that they might reflect the same form of psychopathology, shaped by gender. However other lines of evidence point to the presence of partly unique, albeit overlapping, trait dimensions, specifically affective instability which differentiates BPD from ASP...

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) refers to the fear of anxiety-related sensations, which is thought to arise from beliefs about their harmful consequences. AS is a multidimensional construct that consists of fears of somatic, social, and cognitive aspects of anxiety. In the present study, we examined the relationship between AS dimensions, assessed by factor-analytically derived subscales of the Anxiet...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe systematically recent studies that show the importance of cholesterol in psychopathology. METHODS This study was a review. The following databases were searched for relevant published articles on human studies: MEDLINE, Web of Science, EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (papers from January 2012 to Ma...

introduction in recent decades cardiovascular disease (cvd) is the important leading cause of death in the world. one of its most insidious forms is coronary heart disease (chd). there are a number of factors that may contribute to incidence of chd and physical and psychological side effects of it. but previous research indicates that type d personality, emotional intelligence, stress, coping s...

The chapters in this section address a large group of behaviors including psychopathological syndromes, trait dimensions, and a variety of specific deficits. Examples perspective taking. Historically, disinhibitory behavior has been ascribed to willful misbehavior and debate continues with respect to the legitimacy of regarding disinhibitory syndromes as psychopathology For many, establishing a...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to show that the differences among eating behaviours are related to the emotional dysregulation connected to the mental dimensions being part of the obese psychopathology. Eating behaviours can be considered a diagnostic feature at the initial screening for determining the obesity treatment: nutritional or bariatric surgery. METHODS 1828 Obese subjects underwe...

Anxiety sensitivity (AS) is composed of three lower-order dimensions, cognitive concerns, physical concerns, and social concerns. We examined the relations between AS dimensions using a more adequate assessment of subscales (ASI-3) than has previously been used, and measures of anxiety and mood disorders as well as suicidal ideation in a sample of 256 (M age = 37.10 years, SD = 16.40) treatment...

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