In this ex post facto study, the most frequent Personality Disorders (PDs) related to pathological gambling are described. A sample of 50 consecutively recruited treatment-seeking pathological gamblers was compared to 50 consecutively recruited psychiatric outpatients with non-addictive disorders and to 50 normative subjects from the general population with the same demographic features (age, s...

Thus far in this book, on the basis of the investigative and forensic science practice literature, the types of crime scene evidence that are typically available and submitted for analysis by law enforcement investigators have been described. The process of crime reconstruction, in which attempts are made to translate these pieces of crime scene evidence into a narrative of crime events and off...

The study tested the proposition that coping is personality in action under stress. Using a stressful medical school entrance examination, the study examined (a) whether neuroticism emerged in coping patterns over time and (b) whether the influence of neuroticism on coping accounted for changes in anxiety and examination performance. Fifty premedical students reported their coping efforts at 35...

BACKGROUND Clinical examinations increasingly consist of composite tests to assess all aspects of the curriculum recommended by the General Medical Council. SETTING A final undergraduate medical school examination for 214 students. AIM To estimate the overall reliability of a composite examination, the correlations between the tests, and the effect of differences in test length, number of i...

This article provides an empirical examination of how online social networks affect subjective well?being, namely enquiring if mediate the effect personality on well?being individuals who use those networks. We theories complementarity face?to?face and networks, preferential attachment, “Big Five Personality Traits” to test following hypothesis: Given that offline complement each other as integ...

Aesthetic chills are transient emotional responses to music or other experiences of beauty. Item 188 of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) asks respondents if they have experienced these chills, and in American samples it is one of the best definers of Openness to Experience, one of the five basic personality factors. As part of the NEO-PI-R, the item has been translated into over...

Previous research on response inhibition in psychopaths has failed to find consistent evidence for aberrant inhibitory ability, despite strong expectations to the contrary. However, previous examinations have utilised inhibition paradigms that suffer from critical shortcomings, such as a lack of ecological validity and overly simplistic response criteria. To assess inhibition under conditions c...

Title of Dissertation: THE IMPLICATIONS FOR DESISTANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF CHILDHOOD AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR Sarah Nicholson Bacon, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Hanno Petras, Ph.D. Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice One of the most important goals for criminological research is to further our understanding of the concept of desistance. Challe...

OBJECTIVES The aim of curriculum reform in medical education is to improve students' clinical and communication skills. However, there are contradicting results regarding the effectiveness of such reforms. METHODS A study of internal medicine students was carried out using a static group design. The experimental group consisted of 77 students participating in 7 sessions of communication train...