Introduction: There are few studies about the role of personality in predicting cancer-related clinical-psychological symptoms. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of behavioral brain systems in predicting clinical psychological symptoms in cancer patients. Methods: The present research is descriptive-correlational. A sample of 100 patients with cancer was selected usin...

Background & Aims: The increased prevalence of Narcissistic personality and development of psychobiological approaches in recent decades has led to a shift in prevention and treatment of this disorder. So, current research is aimed at determining the role of temperament-character dimensions and brain-behavioral systems in predicting narcissistic personality characteristics. Material...

Objectives: The goal of the present study was to determine the prediction model of social phobia by investigating a number of its predictors. In this study shyness, behavioral inhibition, attentional bias, interpretation bias, social self-efficacy and attachment were assessed as predictors of social phobia. Method: 438 students of Tehran University participated in this study. All participants c...

Objective: Personality and emotional constructs play a central role in relapse to substance use. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the Relationship between behavioral brain systems in relapse to substance use with mediating role of emotion dysregulation. Method: Using a correlational design, 300 individuals using stimulants referring to the addiction treatment centers of Karaj were s...

The Behavioral Inhibition System(BIS) and Behavioral Activation System(BAS) Scales(BIS/BASS) were developed by Carver and White(1) as self-report measures derived from the two behavioral systems in Gray's theory(2,3). The purpose of the present study was to examine carry out Carver and White’s model with Shiraz university students. In order to this research, exploratory factor structure of the ...

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to examine the sensitivity level of Behavioral Approach System (BAS) and Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) as probable predisposing factors for substance abuse. To this end, the difference of sensitivity levels of BAS and BIS were assessed in substance abusers, cigarette smokers, and normal individuals. Method: The present causal-comparative study c...

Background and purpose: In recent years, interest to behavioral-neural theory system associated with motivation and emotion Personality and Mental Pathology over the past has been taken into consideration. In this regard, the present study was aimed at doing the relationship between behavioral-neural system with clinical psychological symptoms in the students of Baharestan and Robatkarim. ...