INTRODUCTION Sexual disorders impact up to 43% of women. However, the relationship between sexual dysfunction and psychological variables such as personality traits and coping mechanisms is not well understood. AIM To examine personality domains and coping strategies utilized by women with sexual dysfunction in a clinical sample. METHODS Patients seeking care for female sexual dysfunction (...

The purpose of this study was to develop item banks by linking items from three pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments using a mixed methodology. Secondary data were collected from 469 parents of children aged 8-16 years. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth (ICF-CY) served as a framework to compare the concepts of items...

INTRODUCTION Human personality is described preferentially in terms of factors (dimensions) found using factor analysis. An alternative and highly related method is network analysis, which may have several advantages over factor analytic methods. AIM To directly compare the ability of network community detection (NCD) and principal component factor analysis (PCA) to examine modularity in mult...

OBJECTIVES To determine if experienced health care providers (HCPs) can recognise patients with fibromyalgia (FM) based on a limited set of personality items, exploring the existence of a FM personality. METHODS From the 240-item NEO-PI-R personality questionnaire, 8 HCPs from two different countries each selected 20 items they considered most discriminative of FM personality. Then, evaluatin...

Background: Personality functioning has moved into the focus of psychiatric diagnosis since DSM-5 has introduced the Levels of Personality Functioning Scale for the assessments of personality disorders (PD). The 100-item Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO) was developed for diagnosing personality functioning. The STIPO covers seven dimensions: (1) identity, (2) object relat...

Computerized adaptive testing in personality assessment can improve efficiency by significantly reducing the number of items administered to answer an assessment question. Two approaches have been explored for adaptive testing in computerized personality assessment: item response theory and the countdown method. In this article, the authors review the literature on each and report the results o...

Due to the growth of online shopping and services, various types of products can be recommended to an individual. After reviewing the current methods for cross-domain recommendations, we believe that there is a need to make different types of recommendations by relying on a common base, and that it is better to depend on a target customer's information when building the base, because the custom...

this research is a comparative study of entrepreneurial characteristics of founders of non-governmental high school in tehran. the research population was the female and male’s founders of non-governmental high school in tehran (totally 507 persons). the sample was 213 people (90 women and 123 men) were selected by cluster sampling. the data were collected through questionnaire that measured tw...

In a multi-attribute combinatorial double auction (MACDA), sellers and buyers’ preferences over multiple synergetic goods are best satisfied. In recent studies in MACDA, it is typically assumed that bidders must know the desired combination (and quantity) of items and the bundle price. They do not address a package combination which is the most desirable to a bidder. This study presents a new p...