Students’ academic achievement is a key predictor of various life outcomes. The two most prominent measures are grades and standardized test scores. Both commonly used during selection processes as well for educational monitoring accountability. Research has suggested that scores strongly related to students’ characteristics (e.g., cognitive abilities) but might differentially reflect personali...

BACKGROUND Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral group therapies are frequently applied in day hospitals for the treatment of anxiety disorders and comorbid depressive or personality disorders in Poland and other Eastern European countries. Yet there is not enough evidence as to their effectiveness in this environment; this study addresses this gap. The aim of the study is to determine the eff...

objective: to assess the level of awareness on breast cancer among women of reproductive age. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in opd of dhaka medical college hospital among the 175 respondents by face to face interview using pretested semi structured questionnaire. results: one forth (23%) aged 21-25 years, mostly muslim (86.3%), housewives (72.57%), had...

The patient was a 46-year-old woman, who was visited in our hospital because of progressive personality change, visual field defect, severe headache, and olfactory hallucination for the previous 3 months. On neurological examination, she had hyposmia and bitemporal hemianopia. Mini-mental status examination score was 28 out of 30. Furthermore, he had bilateral papilledema. Other neurological ex...

The last decade has witnessed a number of significant methodological advances and developments in the assessment of psychopathy. The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised and the two-factor model of psychopathy have facilitated the assessment of psychopathy and clarified the differential correlates of the personality- and behavior-based operationalizations of this syndrome. Although preliminary evidenc...

Memory consolidation processes occur slowly over time, allowing recently formed memories to be altered soon after acquisition. Although post-learning arousal treatments have been found to modulate memory consolidation, examination of the temporal parameters of these effects in humans has been limited. In the current study, 127 participants learned a neutral word list and were exposed to either ...

The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory–III (MCMIIII; Millon, 2006) is a 175item True / False selfreport measure of 14 personality patterns and 10 clinical syndromes for use with adults 18 years of age and older who are being evaluated and / or treated in mental health settings. Since the introduction of this test in 1977, it has become one of the most frequently used assessment instruments fo...

A growing body of research has suggested that narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) contains 2 factors or types: overt/grandiose and covert/vulnerable. A recent factor analysis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), NPD symptoms supported a similar 2-factor model. The present research tested this proposed 2-factor solution against a 1-factor solutio...

Nowadays, there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that personality variables can play an important role in the prediction of academic performance. However, many authors have mentioned that the differences in the prediction power of broad and narrow personality measures must be taken into account. We develop and validate a scale to assess the anxiety encountered when taking a statistics cou...

Undergraduates (N = 189) rated their test anxiety and emotions immediately before a midterm examination and recalled those feelings 1 week later. Students who learned they had done well on the exam underestimated, and those who learned they had done poorly overestimated, pre-exam test anxiety. Personality traits and emotional states together predicted memory distortion. Specifically, traits pre...