BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to investigate personality traits, psychological distress and functional disability in patients with non-traumatic osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH). METHODS Sixty-seven patients participated in the study, 48 males and 19 females. The mean age was 37.6 years (SD: 10.92, range: 15 - 61). Seventy-five healthy individuals, age and sex matched, s...

The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students’ personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in ...

While in the first project year the core techniques, programs and resources to enable the generation of animated conversation in web-based applications have been developed and implemented, the second project year is dedicated to the refinement of the system modules and the enhancement of the functionality of the demonstrators, with a focus on affective reasoning, and verbal and nonverbal expres...

Abstract. Geographical processes might well impact online engagement in big countries like the USA. Upon a random sample of 200K news articles and corresponding 41M comments posted on the Yahoo! News in that country, we show that nearby individuals tend to comment and engage with similar news articles more than distant individuals do. Interestingly, at state level, topics one reads about are as...

Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”. The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the linkage between personality, socio-economic factors and entrep...

OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in a representative sample of the Jamaican population using the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI). METHOD A four-stage stratified random sampling method was used to obtain a representative population sample consisting of 1506 Jamaicans, M:F = 727 (48.3%):779 (51.7%), ages 18-64 years. A demographic questio...

Part of the reason for the lack of literature addressing the antecedents of game play (rather than the outcome) was that it was perceived as being a technologically deterministic approach. Social scientists wish to believe that human behavior is something that can be cognitively. This paradigm has led most of the research on media effects, which examine socio-psychological factors that are uniq...

introduction : the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of perfectionism and abnormal personality dimensions introduced in the fifth edition of diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, and to address this issue that to what extent each personality dimension can predict the dimensions of to perfectionism. method: the present study is descripti...

background and objectives: an association between socioeconomic status (ses) and poor health has been recognized. inequalities in nutrition have been associated with inequalities in health. this study aimed to identify the social variability in the food and nutrient intake of iranian households. materials and methods: this study was conducted in the framework of the comprehensive study on house...