Whether avoidant personality disorder symptoms are related to neurocognitive impairments that aggregate in relatives of schizophrenics is unknown. We report the relationship between avoidant personality disorder symptoms and neurocognitive performance in the first-degree relatives of probands with schizophrenia. 367 first-degree relatives of probands with schizophrenia and 245 relatives of comm...

abstract aim and background: primary maladaptive schemas are  main pattern of many personality disorders, comparison of primary maladaptive schemas can prepare a strong credit for schematherapy. the purpose of the present study was to determine the dominant schemas and comparison of early maladaptive schemas in avoidant personality disorders patients and normal individuals.   methods and materi...

The purpose of the present study was to further clarify the behavioral, physiological, and verbal response of patients with circumscribed social (speech) phobia, generalized social phobia without avoidant personality disorder, and generalized social phobia with avoidant personality disorder. Patients completed a battery of verbal report instruments and participated in two behavioral assessment ...

We demonstrate a means of conservatively combining self and peer data regarding personality pathology and interpersonal behavior through structural equation modeling, focusing on avoidant personality disorder traits as well as those of two comparison personality disorders (dependent and narcissistic). Assessment of the relationship between personality disorder traits and interpersonal problems ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the sources of comorbidity for social phobia and dimensional representations of avoidant personality disorder by estimating to what extent the two disorders are influenced by common genetic and shared or unique environmental factors versus the extent to which these factors are specific to each disorder. METHOD Young adult female-female twin...

Glossary Anhedonia A mental health symptom, commonly seen in mood disorders and schizophrenia-related disorders, involving the inability to experience pleasure from enjoyable activities. Comorbidity The presence of two or more psychiatric diagnoses found simultaneously in the same individual. Comorbidity may reflect the presence of two distinct pathologies, but may also reflect imperfect diagno...

OBJECTIVE This study tracked the individual criteria of four DSM-IV personality disorders-borderline, schizotypal, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders-and how they change over 2 years. METHOD This clinical sample of patients with personality disorders was derived from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study and included all participants with borderline,...

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...

Court-mandated male batterers (n = 192) attending an intervention program completed measures examining adult attachment orientations (anxious and avoidant), personality disorders (borderline and antisocial), type of violence (psychological and physical), and social desirability. Structural equation modeling was used to determine whether there were significant relationships between anxious attac...