Background: Personality functioning has moved into the focus of psychiatric diagnosis since DSM-5 has introduced the Levels of Personality Functioning Scale for the assessments of personality disorders (PD). The 100-item Structured Interview of Personality Organization (STIPO) was developed for diagnosing personality functioning. The STIPO covers seven dimensions: (1) identity, (2) object relat...

In the personality disorder section of the DSM-V research agenda, the authors stress the need for studies on the relevance of a change from diagnostic categorical models to dimensional ones. These studies should identify the underlying genetic and neurobiologic mechanisms and appropriate representation on the dimensions of clinical criteria as cognitive disturbances, identity conflicts and atta...

Studies conducted in medical education show that personality influences undergraduate medical students academic and clinical performances and also their career interests. Our aims with this exploratory study were: to assess the contribution of graduate entry students to the diversity of personality in medical student populations; to assess whether eventual differences may be explained by progra...

Personality is regarded as a distal determinant of health behavior and has been found to be associated with health behavior in young adults. Research investigating the association between personality and health behaviors in adolescents, however, is lacking. The present study explored the direct associations between Big Five personality dimensions with fruit and vegetable consumption and physica...

Studies of personality in nonhuman primates have usually relied on assessments by humans and seldom considered the function of the resulting "trait" classifications. In contrast, we applied exploratory principal component analysis to seven behaviors among 45 wild female baboons over 7 y to determine whether the personality dimensions that emerged were associated with measures of reproductive su...

INTRODUCTION To objective is to identify the factorial structure underlying personality disorders, using clinical and personality measures, and to check whether the resulting structure is valid and theoretically comprehensible, using neurocognitive and psychophysiological measures for establishing possible differences between the factors. METHOD From the data obtained with the scales MCMI-II ...

UNLABELLED Although the last decade research has shown that personality disorders (PD) represent a major risk in suicidal behavior, the role of personality dimensions in determining this type of behavior hasn't been yet studied thoroughly. AIM we intend to highlight some personality traits that may induce a suicidal behavior in patients diagnosed with PD. METHODS the sample consisted of 131...

Objective: To analyze the personality traits and psychological discomfort, eighteen months after bariatric surgery (vertical banded gastroplasty) in morbidly obese patients. Method: We used the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II) for assessing personality traits in 100 morbidly obese patients. Results: Six basic factor dimensions in the mental state were obtained: (1) Personality ...