The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of the C-1291G polymorphism in the promoter region of the alpha 2A adrenoreceptor gene (ADRA2A) to the personality traits. In the present study, data of the younger cohort of the Estonian Children Personality Behaviour and Health Study was used (N = 419). Personality traits were assessed by 240-item (Estonian Personality Item Pool NEO (EPIP-NE...

The main purposes of the present study were to see how the term "euthanasia" influences people's support for or opposition to euthanasia; and to see how euthanasia attitude relates to religious orientation and personality factors. In this study two different euthanasia attitude scales were compared. 197 students were selected to fill out either the Euthanasia Attitude Scale (EAS) or Wasserman's...

OBJECTIVE The purpose was to describe clinical, cognitive, and personality characteristics at baseline assessment of 249 participants, 19 to 60 years of age, in a multinational longitudinal study of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD). METHOD Participants (74% cognitively normal) were from ADAD families with mutations in 1 of 3 genes (APP, PSEN1, or PSEN2). Mixed model analyses, inc...

OBJECTIVE This study examined associations between the composition and diversity of the intestinal microbiota and measures of depression, anxiety, eating disorder psychopathology, stress, and personality in a group of healthy adult females. METHODS Female participants (n = 91) ages 19-50 years with BMI 18.5-25 kg/m2 were recruited from central North Carolina between July 2014 and March 2015. ...

Personality assessment as a pre-employment screening procedure receives great interest from both researchers and practitioners. One key concern for selection specialists is represented by the response distortion among job applicants completing personality inventories. There are different operationalizations of socially desirable responding. One of the most accepted operationalizations was provi...

We examined the extent to which neuroticism, health anxiety, social and support predicted well-being in a sample of online users engaging health-seeking behaviour. used cross-sectional survey recruit participants who engaged The study included 350 were recruited using media platforms such as Reddit Twitter. A multiple regression was conducted examine relationships between support, well-being. P...

Purpose The purpose of this paper was to establish the psychometric properties Asian Family Characteristics Scale (AFCS) in Thai population. Design/methodology/approach 30-item AFCS originally developed Malay language translated into Thai. ( n = 384) and 500) participants Study 1 responded their respective languages. data were subjected a confirmatory factor analysis with measurement invariance...

El Neuroticismo (N), a pesar de ser un rasgo personalidad normal, se vincula con el padecimiento diversas psicopatologias. Se estudió la continuidad entre N y su variante desadaptativa, Afectividad Negativa (AN), aplicando modelo Teoría Respuesta al Ítem (TRI) dos escalas que miden estos constructos. Participaron 619 personas población general (64.3 % mujeres), quienes respondieron protocolo in...

The Axis II Work Group of the Task Force on DSM-IV has expressed concern that antisocial personality disorder (APD) criteria are too long and cumbersome and that they focus on antisocial behaviors rather than personality traits central to traditional conceptions of psychopathy and to international criteria. We describe an alternative to the approach taken in the rev. 3rd ed. of the Diagnostic a...