Narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, has been excluded as a diagnostic category and independent personality disorder type in the Personality and Personality Disorder Work Group's recent proposal for DSM-5 Personality and Personality Disorders. The aim of this paper is to present supporting evidence in favor of keeping NPD as a personality type with a set of separate diagnostic criteria in DS...

perfectionism is a personality characteristic that is defined in various forms but in most of these definitions, willingness to complete and superiority are common. segmentation of perfectionism to two kinds: positive or negative, adaptive or maladaptive and healthy or unhealthy and or to various kinds, began by hamachek (1978) and so far, several theorists have attempted to verification, compl...

We examined change and stability of the 3 personality types identified by Block and Block (1980) and studied their links with adjustment and relationships. We used data from a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents, thereby covering the ages of 12-20 years. In Study 1, systematic evidence for personality change was found, in that the number of overcontrollers and...

BACKGROUND There have been no studies of the co-occurrence of personality and substance use disorders in young community-dwelling adults. AIMS To examine the association between DSM-IV personality disorders and substance use disorders in a large representative sample of young community-dwelling participants. METHOD Young Australian adults (n=1520, mean age=24.1 years) were interviewed to de...

INTRODUCTION Type D personality consists of a mixture of high levels of negative affectivity and social inhibition, resulting in a stable tendency to experience negative emotions, by inhibiting the expression of these emotions. We have reanalyzed the clinically relevant studies examining the role of this personality profile in diabetes, by providing a qualitative synthesis of the data. In this ...

Background: Personality traits along with well-known factors like socioeconomic status and cognitive ability, predict important life outcomes such as health lifespan, educational occupational attainment, may promote specific types of task effectiveness, which occurs in part via the processing information. Reaction time provides an indirect index central nervous system’s integrity ability. Mater...

a comparative study of personality factors, life orientation and hope level in coronary heart patients and normal subjects     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] * , banehasmishishevan mr [3] , mahmoodi h [4] , amani saribagloo j [5]     received: 26 nov , 2012 accepted: 20 feb , 2013     abstract   background & aims : one of the most important topics in the field of health psychology is the inf...

Background: One of the conditions affecting mental health is working condition which should be considered more. Work-related stress can impair mental health. Firefighting because of exposure to hazardous agents and risky activities is a stressful and hard job. This research was conducted to investigate the relationship of type A personality and sensation seeking trait with gener...