BACKGROUND Recently, the nature of personality disorders and their relationship with normal personality traits has received extensive attention. The five-factor model (FFM) of personality, consisting of the personality traits neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, is one of the proposed models to conceptualize personality disorders as maladaptiv...

BACKGROUND Limited research exists exploring the influence of personality on adherence behaviour. Since non-adherence is a major obstacle in treating prevalent chronic diseases the aim was to determine whether personality traits are related to reported adherence to medication in individuals with chronic disease. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Individuals with chronic disease (n = 749) were id...

the aim of the present study was to determine the mediating role of love styles in the relationship between personality traits and couples’ marital adjustment. the research method is correlational which was carried out using structural equation modeling (sem). the research population comprised all the couples referring to the family court in tabriz. 280 subjects were selected from this populati...

A growing body of research suggests that traumatic events lead to persisting personality change characterized by increased neuroticism. Relevantly, enduring improvements in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms have been found in response to 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy. There is evidence that lasting changes in the personality feature of "openness" o...

BACKGROUND Smoking is the most common and cheapest addictive substance and has physical, psychological, and social side effects. Personality traits and low self-control have been identified as key factors for substance and tobacco abuse. This study examined the relationship between personality traits and self-control, and symptoms of nicotine dependence in male prisoners. METHODS This was a d...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa aim: psychological factors such as personality traits may affect the adjustment capacity and quality of life (qol) in ulcerative colitis (uc) patients. type d personality has some similarities with general personality traits of uc patients. the aims of this study were to compare neo personality profile and type d personality between healthy normal g...

objective: the purposes of this study were to examine the relationships between personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation strategies and impulsive behaviors of borderline personality disorder, and to explore which personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation strategies can better predict and explain the impulsive behaviors in borderline personality disorder. methods: this study wa...