OBJECTIVE To establish the relationship between the personality traits of the adolescent and his or her cooperation with the orthodontic treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS From a sample of 70 adolescent orthodontic patients (46 girls and 24 boys) between 12 and 15 years of age (average age, 13.4 +/- 1.1 years), the patients' personality traits were evaluated by using a personality questionnaire...

BACKGROUND Personality pathology affects behavioral patterns in patients with schizophrenia notwithstanding psychotic symptomatology. An investigation of the role of co-morbid personality pathology in the occurrence of aggression in schizophrenia is explored using both categorical and dimensional approaches to personality pathology. METHODS In a cross-sectional study we evaluate, in 97 patien...

User models in human-computer interfaces have focused on various user characteristics, but there is little user modeling of the most fundamental dimension of variation between humans: personality traits. We explore here the possibility of automatically acquiring such models by simply observing the user’s language. We automatically learn models for personality recognition from different corpora ...

We present a neural network model that aims to bridge the historical gap between dynamic and structural approaches to personality. The model integrates work on the structure of the trait lexicon, the neurobiology of personality, temperament, goal-based models of personality, and an evolutionary analysis of motives. It is organized in terms of two overarching motivational systems, an approach an...

We are interested in understanding human personality and its manifestations in human interactions. The automatic analysis of such personality traits in natural conversation is quite complex due to the user-profiled corpora acquisition, annotation task and multidimensional modeling. While in the experimental psychology research this topic has been addressed extensively, speech and language scien...

In this paper we investigate whether a personality profile can be determined by observing a player’s behavior in a game. Five personality traits are used to define a personality profile. They are adopted from the Five Factor Model of personality. The five traits are measured by the NEO-PI-R questionnaire. For our purpose, we developed a game module for the game Neverwinter Nights. The module au...

Human beings exist in multiple substrates or dimensions. But we still need more comprehensive and integrative theories of self-identity and personality. Most personality and developmental theories fail to adequately address the interaction among the psychological, interpersonal, environmental, and biological aspects of self and personality development. This paper presents a larger framework in ...

Background: Non-adherence to drug therapy is an important cause of treatment failure among patients with chronic conditions like diabetes. Previous researches have presented associations among personality traits, medication beliefs and adherence to long-term medication treatment in individuals with different chronic diseases. However, there is limited knowledge about associations among personal...