This study investigated the relationship of two social psychological constructs (social anxiety and social comparison) with bulimic and restrictive eating attitudes among nonclinical women. Eighty young women completed a measure of social anxiety (the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, FNE), a measure of social comparison (the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure, INCOM), the Beck De...

PURPOSE Comorbidity in psychopathology is the norm. Despite some initial evidence, few studies have examined if the presence of comorbid conditions changes the expression of the pathology, either through increased severity of the syndrome(s) or by expanding to symptoms beyond the syndrome(s) (i.e., symptom overextension). The following report provides an illustration of interactive effects and ...

OBJECTIVE Bladder cancer is such an important health problem and accounts for most of the surgical duty in the urology departments. We achieve to draw the features of patients diagnosed with bladder tumors in the Cuenca area throughout a seventeen-year period. MATERIAL AND METHOD From January 1985 to December 2002 we recorded in the Cuenca area the entire urologic tumor recently diagnosed. Th...

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1997) requires identification of emotional disturbance by special education criteria. It also requires that emotional disturbance be distinguished from social maladjustment. In some cases, a thorough evaluation of the child’s character pathology can aid in this determination. While methods such as the Rorschach, BASC, and MMPI-A are useful in und...

In a sample of inmates in correctional facilities, the relationship between aggression components and different socioeconomic and family variables were examined. The independent variables were divided into two domains: the characteristics of the participant family of origin and the characteristics of the participant. ln each domain there were three variables. The family of origin variables were...

Delivery of mental health services is changing world wide including India. Practice has shifted from an instrumental model of care to community based and family involvement based techniques. Despite that centrally, the views and experiences of family on the utility of the present classification system have been little studied. Present study was aimed to assess the difference of family pathology...

Pathology and determination of students' moral vulnerability is significant step in their security against cultural, social, value, and moral changes. The present study has been done to assess the students' moral vulnerability. The theoretical framework composed of theories of Durkheim, Englehart and Lerner. By the survey technique, this study has examined the relationship between the moral vul...