OBJECTIVE Shame is considered to be a central emotion in borderline personality disorder and to be related to self-injurious behavior, chronic suicidality, and anger-hostility. However, its level and impact on people with borderline personality disorder are largely unknown. The authors examined levels of self-reported shame, guilt, anxiety, and implicit shame-related self-concept in women with ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study investigated chronic stress, depressive symptoms, anger, and hostility in relation to incident stroke and transient ischemic attacks in middle-aged and older adults. METHODS Data were from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a population-based cohort study of 6749 adults, aged 45 to 84 years and free of clinical cardiovascular disease at baselin...

Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom who suffer from symptoms of PTSD are likely to have difficulties with anger regulation given the centrality of anger in the human survival response. Research among military veterans has consistently shown that those with PTSD are higher in anger, hostility, aggression, general violence, and relationship violence and abuse than those without the disorder (e.g....

Theorists and clinicians are not always clear in distinguishing anger from hostility and aggression, sometimes using the terms interchangeably. Given the confusion that prevails in much of the literature, Thomas (1993c) maintains the importance of establishing such distinctions. Thomas defines anger as "a strong feeling of distress or displeasure in response to a specific provocation of some ki...

To know the association between psychological strain and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and to examine roles of smoking and catecholamine excretion as a possible mediator in the association, we measured mood states (Profile of Mood States, POMS), urinary catecholamines (adrenalin, noradrenaline and dopamine) from urine sample in early morning, HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) of 63 male ...

Objectives: The most common problem that delinquent children and juveniles deal with at every moment is the lack of sufficient control over their aggression. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of mental rehabilitation group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on decreasing aggression in juvenile delinquents. Methods: This study employed a quasi-experiment...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that reports of interpersonal discrimination result in poor mental health. Because personality characteristics may either confound or mediate the link between these reports and mental health, there is a need to disentangle its role in order to better understand the nature of discrimination-mental health association. We examined whether hostility, anger repression an...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to examine the relation between hostility and incident ischemic heart disease (IHD) and to determine whether observed hostility is superior to patient-reported hostility for the prediction of IHD in a large, prospective observational study. BACKGROUND Some studies have found that hostile patients have an increased risk of incident IHD. However, no studies ...

This study aims to explore the differences in psychopathological symptoms that may exist general adult population with or without psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), depending on age range. The presence of PLEs, self-reported symptomatology, and different sociodemographic psychosocial characteristics were assessed 216 participants any record personal psychiatric antecedents. sample was divided i...