Attachment theory was investigated as an alternative interpersonal theory for understanding how audience members form parasocial relationships with television personalities. Attachment theory posits that people develop relationships in either a secure or insecure fashion. We explored whether attachment styles influenced the extent to which individuals engage in parasocial interaction. A total o...

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Noa Aharony is a lecturer in the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University; e-mail: [email protected]. The purpose of this research is to develop an understanding of the factors that support or constrain the individual’s sharing knowledge in the organization. The current study seeks to explore whether personality (selfefficacy and self-esteem) and situational (cognitive app...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) and personality in experts of sport organization of tehran municipality. the research was descriptive and correlational. statistical sample equaled the statistical population (n=90), but only 83% of their data were analyzed. demographic questionnaire, organizational citizenship behavior...

CONTEXT Individual differences in dimensions of personality may play an important role in explaining risk for disordered gambling behavior as well as the comorbidity between disordered gambling behavior and other substance-related addictive disorders. OBJECTIVES To identify the personality correlates of problem gambling in a representative non-treatment-seeking sample, as well as to determine...

I examined the relationships among childhood abuse, alexithymia, and personality disorder. Participants were 60 adults who were receiving outpatient psychotherapy. Both the participants and their therapists used the Toronto Alexithymia Scale to provide independently information concerning the client's level of alexithymia. The therapists provided information concerning DSM-III-R personality dis...

Aim. To test whether three different intensive programs of treatment for neurotic and personality disorders are effective in decreasing neurotic symptoms and traits of neurotic personality and whether there are differences between them in clinical outcome. Method. The sample consists of 105 patients (83% female, mean age 35) diagnosed with neurosis and personality disorders that were treated in...