The author defines hysteria in terms of specific observable classes of interpersonal behaviors and examines the impact of these behaviors on the receiver. The hysteric communicates frailty and helplessness, thus structuring the interpersonal environment to ensure attention and inhibit aggression. The development of these roles is shown in histories of female hysterics, who were selectively rein...

A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust. One of the most salient factors m the effecdveness of our.A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust. Article first published online: 28 APR 2006. Tb01454.x. A new scale for the measurement of interpersonal trust. PMID: 4865583 PubMed indexed for MEDLINE. Psychometric properties of a new trust inventory the Propensity to Trust....

This study investigated the links among interpersonal problem areas, depression, and alexithymia in adolescent girls at high risk for excessive weight gain and binge eating disorder. Participants were 56 girls (Mage = 14.30, SD = 1.56; 53% non-Hispanic White) with a body mass index (BMI, kg/m(2)) between the 75th and 97th percentiles (MBMI z = 1.57, SD = 0.32). By design, all participants repor...

CONTEXT Today's formal medical school admission systems often include only cognitively oriented tests, although most medical school curricula emphasise both cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Situational judgement tests (SJTs) may represent an innovative approach to the formal measurement of interpersonal skills in large groups of candidates in medical school admission processes. This study e...

This study investigated the association between interpersonal conflicts and the trajectory of self-esteem from adolescence to mid-adulthood. The directionality of effects between self-esteem and interpersonal conflicts was also studied. Participants of a Finnish cohort study in 1983 at age 16 (N = 2194) were followed up at ages 22 (N = 1656), 32 (N = 1471) and 42 (N = 1334) using postal questio...

This research aims to analyze the material processes in journalistic texts of Diário Online and G1 Pará about domestic violence order uncover representations victims aggressors conveyed these news. The theoretical methodological assumptions are supported by Systemic-Functional Linguistics, whose authors that guided were Halliday Matthiessen (2004); Furtado da Cunha Souza (2011); Fuzer Cabral (2...

Despite the growing recognition among researchers of the potentially important role that interpersonal affect plays in performance appraisals, it is not clear whether the effect of interpersonal affect is real or attributable to unobserved ratee characteristics. Using a fixed effects model, I find that the effect of interpersonal affect on ratings is significant and independent of unobserved ra...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...

This research investigated the construct validity of Ihe Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP; L. M. Horowitz, S. E. Rosenberg, B. A. Baer, G. Ureno, & V. S. Villasenor, 1988) in the context of psychodynamic psychotherapy. The interpersonal circumplex was used to categorize patients reporting interpersonal distress into 1 of 4 problem quadrants: Friendly Dominant, Hostile Dominant, Hostile ...