of affective disorders (bipolar affective disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety states) result from multiple genes that confer a susceptibility or liability to develop the disorder when other (environmental) risk factors are also present. In general, bipolar affective disorder has been found to have the highest heritability (i.e. the proportion of variance explained by additive geneti...

BACKGROUND This study examined the relationship of self-reported histories of childhood trauma to measures of affective instability in a sample of unmedicated outpatients with various personality disorders (n=174). METHODS Childhood trauma was measured by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Affective instability comprises at least two dimensions: affective lability, assessed using the Affecti...

BACKGROUND Deficits in cognitive and/or affective perspective-taking have been implicated in Conduct-Disorder (CD), but empirical investigations produced equivocal results. Two factors may be implicated: (a) distinct deficits underlying the antisocial conduct of CD subgroups, (b) plausible disjunction between cognitive and affective perspective-taking with subgroups presenting either cognitive ...

Many areas of today’s society are seeing an increased importance in the creation of systems capable of interacting with users on an affective level through a variety of modalities. Our focus has been on affective posture recognition. However, a deeper understanding of the relationship between emotions in terms of postural expressions is required. The goal of this study was to identify affective...

This study investigates the directions and strengths of the relationships among Media based internal communications and affective commitment to strategy implementation in Bank Sepah. This is a descriptive, applied research and Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect data. Firstly focus group interviews were used to identify the factors of media effecting affective commit...

We compared the age-at-first-registration for patients with schizophrenia and affective psychosis in a statewide mental health register. After excluding those receiving (1) a diagnosis of both schizophrenia (ICD-9 295.x) and affective psychosis (ICD-9 296.x), or (2) a diagnosis of ICD-9 296.1 (which can cover "major depressive episode"), we adjusted the distributions for the age structure of th...

Due to the ready access to large amounts of information afforded by the Internet, information literacy (IL) has taken on an important role. Recent developments in affective computing have provided more opportunities in the way online IL education can be delivered. However, research on how affective computing can be used in IL education is lacking. The research objectives of this study are there...

the role of the motherhood is the most important factor in individual and social life of the human beings. mother willingly and /or, unwillingly, plays her role in the destination of child via various factors. some of these factors are experimental whereas, some not. undoubtedly, what is not in the domain experimental science cannot be grasped but, via revelationary guidance. this article studi...

This study developed a research model based on the tricomponent attitude� model and explored factors influencing e-shoppers’ real purchase behaviors. This study showed that these determinants could be divided into positive and negative approaches. The research sample consisted of 385 valid respondents who are experienced users on Books.com.tw. This research study adopted the structural equation...