CONTEXT Emotional, cognitive, and behavioral response patterns underlying temperament and personality are established early and remain stable from childhood. Anxiety-related traits are associated with psychiatric disease and represent predisposing factors for various affective disorders, including depression and anxiety. Emotional processing relies on the structural and functional integrity of ...

Alexithymia is thought to be a stable personality trait and a predisposing risk factor for depression. In this study, we aimed to identify the prevalence of alexithymia in a depressed and nondepressed sample and examined the relationship between Cloninger's psychobiological model of personality with alexithymia. The Turkish version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Turkish ...

High levels of stress and depression in medical students is raising concern. In this study, we sought to identify coping strategies and other factors influencing academic stress in medical students. We enrolled 157 students from the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea, in November, 2010. We used the Medical Stress Scale, Temperament and Character Inventory, Hamilton Depression Scale,...

Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is an important issue that was included as a tentative in the DSM-5. The aim of present study to contribute increasing understanding IGD by examining indirect relationships between psychobiological components personality, positive and negative affect, among sample Iranian university students. In cross-sectional study, 481 students (50.3% female; Mage = 22.41 years...

This study examined the association of novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and reward dependence with different types (suicide attempts vs. nonsuicidal self-injury) and aspects (medical risk, impulsiveness, suicide intent) of self-injury over a 12-month period. Fifty-five female patients with borderline personality disorder enrolled in clinical trials completed Cloninger's Temperament and Characte...

The aim of the presented study was to investigate the relationship between Cloninger’s personality dimensions of temperament (Harm Avoidance, Novelty Seeking, Reward Dependence, and Persistence) and rates of delay and effort discounting among adolescents. Generally speaking, discounting refers to a decrease in the subjective value of a reward as its delay (delay discounting), or an effort requi...

Personality is defined as an individual integration of mental and somatic properties, which is manifested in social interactions and its structure consists of temperament, character and intelligence. It is also responsible for the human’s adaptation capability, behavior, emotional processing, feeling and experiencing well-being and illness. This is also the reason why personality type is an imp...