objective: this study aimed to determine prevalence and predisposing factors of personality disorders among infertile in comparison to fertile women. materials and methods:  by a descriptive- analytic study in vali-e-asr reproductive health research center, 300 women entered the research.  eysenck personality (epq) and structured researcher questionnaires were applied for all patients. demograp...

The Five-factor model (FFM) provides a viable dimensional model of personality disorder assessment. Advantages of the FFM include the provision of a precise yet comprehensive description of both normal and abnormal personality functioning, the avoidance of the many limitations and problems inherent to the categorical diagnostic system, and the incorporation of basic science research on general ...

The most widely used personality questionnaires are based on the trait paradigm, which implies relatively stable behavioural and emotional patterns. This assumption, however, has often been criticized and empirically called into question. For example, recent research has shown that trait questionnaires and aggregated momentary assessments of personality are highly related, but do not show conve...

this correlational study focused on formal organizations' administrative performance values. it examined the managers' (unit supervisors') employee performance appraisal process in relation to sex and personality differences among unit supervisors in tehran, shahid beheshti and iran medical sciences university hospitals (tehran, 1996). first 537 male and female managers performin...

Author profiling consists of predicting some author’s characteristics (e.g. age, gender, personality) from her writing. After addressing at PAN@CLEF mainly age and gender identification, and also personality recognition in Twitter, in this PAN@FIRE track on Personality Recognition from SOurce COde (PR-SOCO) we have addressed the problem of predicting author’s personality traits from her source ...

the main purpose of this research was 10 study the relationship between attachment styles (secure. avoidant, ambivalent) and personality dimensions (neuroticism. extraversion, openness, agreeableness. consciousness) . two hundred and thirty three students ( 102 male. 131 female ) from the university of tehran participated in this study . adult attachment inventory (aai) was applied for measurin...

the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) and personality in experts of sport organization of tehran municipality. the research was descriptive and correlational. statistical sample equaled the statistical population (n=90), but only 83% of their data were analyzed. demographic questionnaire, organizational citizenship behavior...

OBJECTIVE In light of continuing controversies concerning the DSM-III-R system for diagnosing personality disorders, their construct validity, and the assignment of disorders to a particular axis, the authors studied patterns of axis I-axis II comorbidity. METHOD Semistructured interviews were used to assess axis I and axis II disorders in 200 inpatients and outpatients. Odds ratios were calc...

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 ...

Until the end of the nineties last century personality disorders could not be diagnosed before the age of eighteen. Nevertheless, the results of studies published in the last decade have revealed that personality disorders can be observed in children and adolescents and that personality disorders diagnosed in adult patients had been present as early as in childhood. The knowledge of possible me...