DESCRIPTORSBIBLIOGRAPHIES, *INTERACTION, LITERATURE REVIEWS, MALES, *PERSONALITY STUDIES, *PERSONALITY THEORIES, PHYSICS TEACHERS, QUESTIONNAIRES, SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, *STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, TABLES (DATA), TEACHER ATTITUDES, *TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS, MINNESOTA TEACHER ATTITUDE INVENTORY (MTAI), CLASSROOM CLIMATE QUESTIONNAIRE (CCQ), EDWARDS PERSONAL PREFERENCE SCHEDULE (EPPS), ALLPORT ...

OBJECTIVES To describe changes in personality after stroke and effects on carers. METHODS A consecutive series of patients was recruited from hospital admissions with stroke. A novel questionnaire was administered to the patients' main carer at nine months after the stroke to determine their perception of the patients' pre-stroke and post-stroke personality. Personality change was identified ...

BACKGROUND Aggression is one of the negative components of emotion and it is usually considered to be the outcome of the activity of the Behavioral Inhibition and the Behavioral Activation System (BIS/BAS): components which can be considered as predisposing factors for personality differences. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between brain behavioral syst...

Sibling relationship and personality characteristics of 87 pre-school sibling dyads were measured twice one year apart. Using the Inventory of Child Individual Differences (Halverson et al., 2003), mothers and fathers rated their children’s personality traits. Parent-perceived warmth, agonism, and rivalry/competition in sibling relationship were assessed by Parental Expectations and Perceptions...

Aim: We aimed to investigate the relationship between anxiety disorders and somatisation disorders described in ICD-10 within the title of neurotic disorders, and the personality characteristics related to both groups. Method: Fifty-eight individuals who were either have DSM-IV panic disorder (PD) and or somatisation disorder (SD) completed the Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory (MMPI). I...

INTRODUCTION Physicians experienced in the treatment of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) occasionally describe these patients as "nice" persons. METHODS ALS experienced physicians (n = 36) were asked to assess the personality characteristics of ALS patients using a multidimensional personality questionnaire based on the five-factor model of personality. Control groups consist...

to identify mental disorders and their prevalence in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (rp).this descriptive study was carried out between january 2009 and january 2010 on 417 patients with rp, who were members of iran rp center. the necessary data were collected using questionnaires consisting two parts: the background characteristics and questions assessing the mental health and screening pe...

This study examined personality during adolescence as a predictor of later parenting of toddler-aged offspring. On the basis of empirical research on the timing of parenthood and the interactionist model (Conger & Donnellan, 2007), we examined age at parenthood and family socioeconomic status (SES) as mediators of the relation between personality and parenting. Participants were 228 emerging ad...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the associations between personality facets and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning. Previous studies have mainly focussed on stress-induced HPA-axis activation. We hypothesized that other characteristics of HPA-axis functioning would have a stronger association with personality based on the neuroendocrine literature. Data (n...