Fear-related problems are common among Rough Collies in Sweden. Annually, on average, >200 Rough Collies are subjected to the dog mentality assessment (DMA), a temperament test during which 33 behavioral reactions are rated. Previous research has shown that a dog's DMA result can be condensed into 5 underlying personality traits. The aim of the study was to evaluate if it is possible to use the...

Disturbances in emotion are associated with the most of the diagnostic criteria of the personality disorders, though the role of emotional intelligence in the diagnosis of personality disorders has been the subject of limited research. The present study was designed to investigate the relationships between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) and personality disorder symptomatology in an und...

BACKGROUND The goal of the present study was to determine the relationships between attachment styles and resiliency in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. METHODS A random sample of 260 subjects was obtained from the population of undergraduate students of the Nour Branch of Islamic Azad University, which is located in Mazandaran, and these subjects were enrolled in this descriptive a...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between psychoticism and self-awarencess, slef – acceptance, and gender in normal subjets and to determine the validity of self-rating questionnaire in relation to eysenck's psychoticism scale. (it was hypothesized that such relationships do not exist to a significant degree between these variables). a group of 72 counselling and...

introduction: conflict is inevitable in intimate relationship in the form of disagreements, dislikes, arguments and tensions. it may result in the renovation if handled properly or deterioration of relationship if managed poorly. the aim of this descriptive- correlation study was to investigate the effects of marital coping strategies, personality and self-control on the marital conflict in a p...

objectives: the main purpose of this study was to determine the interactive role of physical activity and personality traits inpsychosocial development of elders. methods & materials: this research was a casual comparative with 300 elders (150 active and 150 non-actives) with 60-85 years old from tehran selected as statistical sample on available bases. all subjects completed psychosocial devel...

the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between personality extraversion-introversion with job satisfaction in disabled employees. this  was a descriptive-analytical study of correlation type. the target population included all of the disabled employed in the offices of aligudarz county who were 100 people, which were selected by census method, and all of them completed the questio...

Personality questionnaire items are normally written by experts in personality theory or psychometrics. This makes personality test development expensive, especially since as many as 40% of the items are discarded after quantitative analysis. Could the crowd create personality items that are as good as the ones developed by professionals? We analyze the psychometric quality of 164 Big Five pers...

Personality disorders can be seen as patterns of maladaptive personality traits that have their onset during childhood or adolescence and that have an impact on the individual throughout the life span. Identity disturbance is seen as the central construct for detecting severe personality pathology—and, most notably, borderline personality disorder—in adults and adolescents. Therefore, in the re...

Recently it has been suggested that the relationship between positive schizotypy and mixed handedness is limited to questionnaire measures, and thus reflects some aspect of questionnaire-taking behaviour as opposed to some aspect of atypical brain organisation. The current study set out to explore this possibility. Undergraduate psychology students completed the Magical Ideation Scale, the Wate...