OBJECTIVE Researchers have advocated replacing the DSM-IV classification of personality disorders with an alternative diagnostic system based on the five-factor model. This study evaluates the clinical comprehensiveness of the five-factor model and addresses the broader question of how many factors, and which factors, are necessary to understand personality pathology. METHOD A national sample...

CONTEXT Individual differences in dimensions of personality may play an important role in explaining risk for disordered gambling behavior as well as the comorbidity between disordered gambling behavior and other substance-related addictive disorders. OBJECTIVES To identify the personality correlates of problem gambling in a representative non-treatment-seeking sample, as well as to determine...

BACKGROUND Schizotypal personality traits are associated with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, stating that schizotypal traits may represent a "prodrome" or other developmental precursor of schizophrenia. Genetic and environmental factors both play importanxt roles in the development of schizotypal traits. Different levels of schizotypal traits across regions may be indicative of similar diffe...

OBJECTIVE The DSM-IV classification of personality disorders has not proven satisfying to either researchers or clinicians. Incremental changes to categories and criteria using structured interviews may no longer be useful in attempting to refine axis II. An alternative approach that quantifies clinical observation may prove useful in developing a clinically rich, useful, empirically grounded c...

this study describes the result of relationship between disc personality types and pay to performance system. also, describe the relationship between herzberg two-factor model and pay to performance. we invited 300 mangers’ of bank refahe kargaran to participate in the study through random selection and received 208 returned responses. the responses rate was 69.3 percent. the data used in this ...

background managing diabetes requires changes in the patients’ life style and health habits which in turn need the comprehensive understanding of the disease and its impact. objectives to understand the explanatory model of diabetes in iran, a qualitative study was performed using the grounded theory method. patients and methods thirty persons were interviewed: fifteen patients, eleven nurses, ...

The five-factor model (FFM) of personality has been widely used to predict cognitions, attitudes and behaviors in management and psychological research. However, FFM personality seldom appeared in the information system (IS) research field. This study incorporated FFM into the IS continuance model to explain how the personality traits influence individuals’ IS continuance intention. The data we...

Personality influences several characteristics of normal and pathologic behaviors and it is associated with neurotransmitter systems that are under genetic control. The dopaminergic system has been proposed to play a role in the modulation of personality traits. In the present study, variants of the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and DOPA decarboxylase (DDC) genes (for TH: rs3842727, rs6356; for DDC...

OBJECTIVE Type D personality can be regarded as a promising cardiovascular risk marker that has been repeatedly linked to relevant indicators of mental health, quality of life, morbidity, and mortality in cardiac patients. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a non-invasive technology that can provide information regarding a patient's sympathetic/parasympathetic balance and the control mechanisms of...