All psychological theories, irrespective of their orientation (dynamic, cognitive, behavioural) agree that childhood environment influences later psychic development. Bowlby’s theory 1 2 states that the lack of a “secure base”, due to dysfunctional parent-child bonding, may predispose the child to develop mental disorders in adult life, and particularly Parental attitudes of mothers of patients...

To test possible mediation of the effects of the perceived parenting in childhood on depression, university students (N = 258) were examined using a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. A path model indicated that (1) the effects of dysfunctional attitude (rated by the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale) on depression (rated by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale) was mediated by a...

The deficit syndrome was proposed over 20 years ago as a separate negative symptom syndrome within schizophrenia with a distinct neurobiological pathophysiology and etiology. Recent research, however, has indicated that psychological factors such as negative attitudes and expectancies are significantly associated with the broad spectrum of negative symptoms. Specifically, defeatist beliefs rega...

background: depression is one of the most common psychiatry disorders. the most common treatments for this disorder are pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. due to the side effects and expensiveness of these methods, developing the non-drug treatments seems to be necessary. this study tries to determine the effect of eight weeks of aerobic exercises on depression, frequency of negative automatic ...

Women with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are prone to have sexual relationship difficulties and dysfunctional attitudes toward sexuality. A sample of 34 heterosexual couples composed of women meeting BPD criteria was compared to a sample of dating or married women from the general population. A short form of the Sexual Activities and Attitudes Questionnaire (SAAQ) was used to measure si...

Background This study aims to examine adult separation anxiety in pregnant women and its relationship with dysfunctional attitudes from the perspective of cognitive theory. Methods The sociodemographic data, Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire (ASA-27), Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale-Revised (DAS-R) questionnaire were utilised correlation between factors ASA attending antenatal obstetric clin...