transactional analysis (ta) is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. the atmosphere that supports transactional analysis is one of comfort, security and respect. a positive relationship is forged between the clinician and the client in order to provide a model for subsequent relationships tha...

background: professional identity is a part of human identity and career has a beneficial impact on psychological health. the importance of personality in job achievement has also been increasingly concerned in economics. objective: to compare the big five personality factors between employed and unemployed persons. materials and methods: this study was an applied cross sectional analytic descr...

introduction: the aim of this study is essay, the association between borderline ersonality disorder and premenstrual syndrome in patients with borderline personality.  method: in this case -control study, 400 students at high schools stage of education in tehran, randomly selected. all the students were aged between 19-15 y , did not use ocp, regular menstrual cycles and cycle lengths (between...

background:   personality characteristics are important factors, which have significant effects on marital adjustment. since personality traits play silent roles in all aspects of human life, as well as social affairs, it can influence marital adjustment and living satisfaction. the present study investigated the role of personality trait dimensions and gender in predicting marital adjustment. ...

background :co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. in this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in iranian gid patients.   methods : seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (srs) were recruited for this cross- sectional study. of the participants, ...

Personality variables have always predicted important behaviors and outcomes in industrial, work, and organizational psychology. In this commentary, we first review empirically supported structural models of personality that show the following: (a) Personality traits are hierarchically organized, (b) the Big Five are not orthogonal, (c) abnormal personality measures assess the same continuum of...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between therapists' emotional responses and patients' personality disorders and level of psychological functioning. METHOD A random national sample of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists (N=203) completed the Therapist Response Questionnaire to identify patterns of therapists' emotional response, and the Shedler-Westen Asses...

BACKGROUND Personality pathology affects behavioral patterns in patients with schizophrenia notwithstanding psychotic symptomatology. An investigation of the role of co-morbid personality pathology in the occurrence of aggression in schizophrenia is explored using both categorical and dimensional approaches to personality pathology. METHODS In a cross-sectional study we evaluate, in 97 patien...

background: despite the fact that new criteria of antisocial personality disorder (aspd) in diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-fi fth edition (dsm-5) were resulted from fi ve-factor model (ffm), there is a small amount of studies that investigate the relations between proposed personality traits and ffm. also, cross-cultural study in this field continuously would be needed.th...