BACKGROUND The presence of a comorbid borderline personality disorder (BPD) may be associated with an increase of suicidal behaviors in patients with depressive and anxiety disorders. The aim of this study is to examine the role of borderline personality traits on recurrent suicide attempts. METHODS The Netherlands Study on Depression and Anxiety included 1838 respondents with lifetime depres...

The article presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of the study self-sufficiency as factor in development psychological self-regulation personality. It is proposed to define complex personal formation, personality-regulatory property that has an effective system influence on activation personality ensuring subjective function activities. condition for their context practical psychol...

According to personality psychology, personality traits determine many aspects of human behaviour. However, validating this insight in large groups has been challenging so far, due to the scarcity of multi-channel data. Here, we focus on the relationship between mobility and social behaviour by analysing two high-resolution longitudinal datasets collecting trajectories and mobile phone interact...

Although left-right items are a standard tool of public opinion research, there remains some difference of opinion on the optimal response format. Two disputes can be identified in the literature: (a) whether to provide respondents with a small or large number of answer categories and (b) whether or not to administer the response scale including a midpoint. This study evaluates the performance ...

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants has made minority recruitment amajor goal. Minorities, and especially African-Americans, have not been entering the accountingprofession in proportion to their numbers in either the general population or the population ofcollege graduates. This paper reports on the results of a survey of a sample of 445 African-American ...

In 1994 Orlikowski and Gash articulated Technological Frames of Reference as a systematic theoretical lens to examine technological developments in organisations. A decade later, in 2004, Davidson and Pai expressed concern that while the lens was widely cited in academic discourse, the incidence and adoption of the model as an analytical framework for socio-cognitive analysis and interpretation...

We describe a general methodology, socio-cognitive engineering, for the design of human-centred technology. It integrates software, task, knowledge and organizational engineering and has been refined and tested through a series of projects to develop computer systems to support training and professional work. In this paper we describe the methodology and illustrate its use through a project to ...