the purpose of this study was to determine the factors and facets of five factor model in people with borderline and schizotypal personality traits.190 kharazmi university students completed three questionnaires: goldberg inventory, borderline personality inventory (bpi) and schizotypal personality questionnaire-brief (spq-b). participants, according to cut off points of borderline personality ...

BACKGROUND Personality factors have been implicated in seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The present study investigated the relationship between the five-factor model of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and SAD. METHODS Ninety-five patients with SAD completed personality measures before and after treatment in a clinical trial and during the ...

objective : few study have examined the relationship between childhood maltreatment and personality disorder in later life especially in eastern mediterranean countries .the study was conducted to explore the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and personality disorder during later life in an iranian sample . a cross - sectional study was conducted in kerman , a city located in e...

abstract background: type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the psychosomatic disorders that stress playing an important role in causing, severity, and long term situation. the present study conducted to determine the association of personality type a and b to type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients’ referring to diabetes center. methods: in the descriptive correlation study, 50 diabetic type 2 patien...

The influence of severity of personality disorder on outcome of depression is unclear. Four hundred and ten patients with depression in 9 urban and rural communities in Finland, Ireland, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom, were randomised to individual problem-solving treatment (n=121), group sessions on depression prevention (n=106) or treatment as usual (n=183). Depressive symptoms were rec...

Increasingly, psychological research has indicated that an individual's personality changes across the lifespan. We aim to better understand personality change by examining if personality change is linked to striving towards fulfilment, as suggested by existential-humanistic theories of personality dynamics. Using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a cohort of 4,733 mid-life individuals across 1...

Categorical disease models of personality disorder currently dominate in the DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 diagnostic systems. In preparation for DSM-V, these models have been questioned in light of evidence and widely held beliefs that disorders of personality are extreme variants of normal personality. Unfortunately, problems arise in trying to produce a dimensional model of abnormal and normal person...

The social constructivists provide a dramaturgical model of personality that is particularly valuable in understanding artificial personality for embodied agents. According to the social constructivists, personality is the product of three distinct perspectives: that of the actor, which entails the expression of personality, that of the observer, which involves the interpretation or impression ...