The Australian Community Psychologist Volume 22 No 1 December 2010 © The Australian Psychological Society Ltd During the past few decades there has been a proliferation of research on resilience. This interest in resilience is not surprising as many disciplines (psychology, social work) move from a deficit, ‘glass half empty’ view of human nature to a positive, salutogenic, ‘glass half full’ ap...

OBJECTIVE Most transgender men desire to receive testosterone treatment in order to masculinize their bodies. In this study, we aimed to investigate the short-term effects of testosterone treatment on psychological functioning in transgender men. This is the 1st controlled prospective follow-up study to examine such effects. METHOD We examined a sample of transgender men (n = 48) and nontrans...

BACKGROUND Approximately two thirds of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) respond well to hypnotherapy. However, it is time consuming as well as expensive to provide and therefore a way of predicting outcome would be extremely useful. The use of imagery and color form an integral part of the hypnotherapeutic process and we have hypothesised that investigating color and how it relates ...

Meditation experiences evolve along a spectrum, ranging from an effortful struggle with the technique to deep transpersonal states where all dualities dissolve. The present study investigated to what extent the depth of meditation is influenced by the amount of meditation practice and the personality trait of absorption, and whether deep experiences influence the mindfulness of meditators in ev...

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The intensity and valence of 30 emotion terms, 30 events typical of those emotions, and 30 autobiographical memories cued by those emotions were each rated by different groups of 40 undergraduates. A vector model gave a consistently better account of the data than a circumplex model, both overall and in the absence of high intensity, neutral valence stimuli. The Positive Activation – Negative A...

Elméleti háttér: A médiaeszközök számos típusa ismert. személyes képességeken és a technikai lehetőségeken múlik azonban, hogy az információt fogadó fél lehetőségek közül melyeket részesíti előnyben milyen mértékben merül el médiaeszközökön keresztül közvetített valóságban. humán technológia álláspontja szerint médiával való elmélyült foglakozás során személy természetes környezetére irányuló f...

Personality is the coherent patterning of affect, behavior, cognition, and desires (goals) over time and space. Just as a full blown emotion represents an integration of feeling, action, appraisal and wants at a particular time and location so does personality represent integration over time and space of these components (Ortony et al., 2005). A helpful analogy is to consider that personality i...

INTRODUCTION Hypnotizability, or hypnotic susceptibility (Green et al., 2005), is a good predictor of the response to suggestions in and out of hypnosis (Meyer and Lynn, 2011). It can be measured by scales (Sheehan and McConkey, 1982) allowing to classify subjects as high (highs), medium (mediums), and low (lows) hypnotizable by indicating the individual ability to modify experience and behavio...

Research has demonstrated associations between relationship satisfaction and personality traits. Using the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model, we explored associations between self-reported relationship satisfaction in couples (n = 118) and various measures of normal and abnormal personality, including higher-order dimensions of PE/Extraversion, NE/Neuroticism, Constraint (CON), and their lowe...