The cerebellum has been proven to be connected to the brain network, as in the default-mode network (DMN), among healthy subjects and patients with psychiatric disorders. However, whether or not abnormal cerebellar DMN connectivity exists and what its clinical significance is among drug-naive patients with somatization disorder (SD) at rest remain unclear.A total of 25 drug-naive patients with ...

Introduction: The aim of this cross-sectional, descriptive study was to determine the personality traits and motivation nursing volunteers their effects on pre-hospitalization emergency care. Method: Participants were 133 pre-hospital from Taiwan. This performed using self-administered basic demographic information, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short (EPQ-RS), Volunteer Motivation ...

BACKGROUND College students' mental health problems include depression, anxiety, panic disorders, phobias and obsessive compulsive thoughts. AIMS To investigate Greek college students' psychopathology. METHODS During the initial evaluation, 638 college students were assessed through the following psychometric questionnaires: (a) Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ); (b) The Symptom Check...

In this meta-analytic review, Hans J. Eysenck’s theory of criminality (Eysenck, 1964, 1977) serves as a theoretical framework for examining the relations between higher order personality dimensions and antisocial behavior (ASB). The three higher order dimensions examined are referred to as extraversion/sociability, neuroticism/emotionality, and impulsivity/disinhibition (see Sher & Trull, 1994)...

To what extent does the wording and syntactic form of people’s writing reflect their personalities? Using a bottom-up stratified corpus comparison, rather than the top-down content analysis techniques that have been used before, we examine a corpus of e-mail messages elicited from individuals of known personality, as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire–Revised (S. Eysenck, Eysenck...

This work examines the association between personality dimensions (extraversion and neuroticism) and subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is associated both with extraversion and neuroticism, and currently, neuroticism is generally considered the more important. A total of 368 students from the University of Rovira i Virgili completed the Extraversion and Neuroticism subscales of the re...

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-cognitiv...

UNLABELLED There are an increasing number of studies which show that certain personality traits predispose an individual to develop psychiatric disorders. The current study tried to examine whether neuroticism is more associated to generalized anxiety disorder. METHODOLOGY A sample of 28 cases of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) was selected in the study and the degree of neuroticism was me...

Socially desirable responding (SDR) is a personality trait which reflects either a tendency to present oneself in an overly positive manner to others, consistent with social conformity (impression management (IM)), or the tendency to view one's own behaviour in an overly positive light (self-deceptive enhancement (SDE)). Neurochemical imaging studies report an inverse relationship between SDR a...