INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE Psychiatric disorders (and their high rates of prevalence) in primary care have been widely analyzed, but the problem of underdiagnosis remains unresolved. This becomes increasingly more important in rural health centres in the face of lack of epidemiological data from these centres. The aim of this study is focused on the relationship between general health, psychiat...

The cortisol awakening response (CAR) is a discrete component of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA-axis) function that has been widely related to both health and some personality traits. There is evidence that neuroticism and extraversion affect health and well-being and play a damaging or protective role, respectively. In this study, we aimed to explore the relationship between thes...

Background: Substance dependence has recently turned into one of the most important social problems. Clinical findings have shown personality traits, social relations, attitudes and values, along with emotional intelligence factors such as emotions, feelings, emotions management, challenging with problems, problem solving, tolerating psychological pressure, impulse control, self esteem and inte...

The heritability and stability over a 19 year period of long (23-item) and short (12-item) versions of Eysenck s Neuroticism scale were compared in a large Australian twin-family sample. Stability over 19 years of the 23-item Neuroticism scale was 0.62 and for the 12-item scale 0.59. Correlations between scores obtained by mailed questionnaire and telephone interview a few weeks apart were 0.87...

it is possible that society and media attention to national athletes increase their narcissism. based on this possibility, this study which was descriptive and field aimed at comparing narcissism between elite and non-elite athlete students and non-athlete students. the population consisted of students of physical education and sport sciences faculties of tehran universities. 105 athlete studen...

The emotional state, psychological characteristics, cognitive function, and the relevance among above factors in patients with functional constipation (FC) are complex. This study aimed to investigate whether FC symptoms might be related to implicit processing such as psychological characteristics and emotional somatization.Thirty-five FC patients and 24 normal volunteers were recruited to coll...

OBJECTIVE Disgust is a basic emotion associated with feelings of revulsion and withdrawal behaviors from dangerous situations. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Disgust Scale--Revised (DS-R), a tool designed to measure individuals' responses to various disgust-provoking situations, among Korean populations. METHODS A sample of 1117 healthy volunteers comp...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have noted differences in social acquiescence and interpersonal relations among adults born preterm or with very low birth weight compared to full term adults. In addition, birth weight has been observed to be negatively correlated with lie-scale scores in two studies. We attempted to replicate and extend these studies by examining young adult lie-scale scores in a Dan...

background: after each natural disaster a comprehensive treatment protocol is needed for volunteers of healthcare personnel of the disaster zone. the aim of this study was to emphasize the psychological aspects of coping strategies, personality, psychological distress and pain of patients survived the bam earthquake.   methods: eighty-six patients who had suffered several kinds of psycho-cognit...

This study reports the results of a biometrical genetical analysis of scores on a personality inventory (The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, or EPQ), which purports to measure psychoticism, neuroticism, extraversion and dissimulation (Lie Scale). The subjects were 544 pairs of twins, from the Maudsley Twin Register. The purpose of the study was to test the applicability of various genotypeen...