Background and Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of borderline personality disorder (BPD) characteristics as a predictor of suicidal in patients with bipolar disorder. Method:  This research was a cross-sectional study and the people who were selected were 50 (25 women, 25 men) who were hospitalized in Shahid Beheshti hospital. They had referred to the psychiatrists an...

This study examines the structure of music preferences in the sample of participants from the Czech Republic (n=521), differences in structure of music preferences among various age groups and the associations between these preferences and certain personality characteristics. The exploratory factor analysis revealed five music preference dimensions. Further analysis addressed the question how m...

This study examined whether certain personality characteristics are associated with susceptibility to false memories. Participants first answered questions from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in order to measure various personality characteristics. They then watched a video excerpt, the simulated eyewitness event. They were next encouraged to lie about the videotaped event during an interview....

In the present study an attempt has been made to compare rural and urban adolescents on personality characteristics. For this purpose a sample of 120 adolescents (60 rural and 60 urban) from various higher secondary schools of district Anantnag and Srinagar were selected randomly. The tool used for collecting data was R.B. Cattle’s Questionnaire (HSPQ). The main findings of the study revealed t...

Personality and intellect are probably the most researched domains of stable and enduring psychological characteristics in the human species. Personality traits and cognitive abilities represent two faces of a human person. However, personality traits are strongly related to other important noncognitive domains, as we have seen in the Chapters 5 and 8. Thus, both faces of our personhood compris...

Effects of sex-role standards on the expression of aggression were examined in a task requiring 40 boys and girls aged nine to 10 to take the role of boys or girls portrayed in a set of cartoon figures. Subjects were asked to respond to aggressive statements attributed to cartoon figures varying in sex. The expectation that subjects taking the role of male figures would display more antisocial ...

Using multilevel modeling, the authors examined the impact of antisocial personality characteristics on the effectiveness of cognitive–behavioral anger management group treatment among 86 veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. A wide range of forms of anger, as well as use of physical aggression, decreased during treatment. As predicted, antisocial personality characteristics were associa...

Borderline personality disorder is a particularly devastating, yet understudied form of psychopathology. One of the most significant gaps in existing knowledge is the lack of systematic, prospective empirical attention to the developmental precursors of borderline personality. The present investigation was an exploratory attempt to address this limitation through (a) development of a psychometr...

The model suggests that there are six constituents to moral identity arranged in two layers. The first layer, at the left edge of the figure, is constituted of enduring personality and social characteristics that form the foundation for much of child and adolescent development. The kinds of personality and social characteristics in this layer change slowly and may be outside of children’s and a...