Alopecia areata is a chronic disease with a great impact on the patient's quality of life. In this study we reviewed the frequency of psychological disorders in patients with alopecia areata in comparison to a control group. We enrolled 40 patients with alopecia areata and a 40-volunteer random age-sex matched control group. The study is based on anxiety and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and ...

BACKGROUND Stress questionnaires are included in many epidemiological cohort studies but the psychometric characteristics of these questionnaires are largely unknown. The aim of this study was to describe these characteristics for two short questionnaires measuring the lifetime and past year occurrence of stress: the List of Threatening Events (LTE) as a measure of acute stress and the Long-ter...

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is often considered distinct from traditional written language. In this paper we examine language use in two computer-mediated environments (e-mail and weblogs) and compare it to that in non-CMC written texts. Previous work has used the LIWC text analysis tool to derive broad language factors for written texts. Here, we find that the linguistic factor struc...

BACKGROUND There is substantial overlap between deliberate self-harm (DSH) and intention to suicide (ITS), although the psychopathologies and motivations behind these behaviors are distinctly different. The purpose of this study was to investigate (i) the pathway relationship among parental bonding, personality characteristics, and alexithymic traits, and (ii) the association of these features ...

BACKGROUND Traffic noise is one of the main important sources in urban noise pollution, which causes various physiological and psychological effects that can cause disturbs in performance, sleep disturbances, hearing loss and impact on job performance. This study was conducted to verify the impact of road traffic noise on reaction time in terms of extraversion and sex. METHODS Traffic noise w...

The relationship between the SSS and EPQ personality dimensions and reinforcement sensitivity was examined in 140 undergraduates using a non-reversal shift concept formation task. Differences in reinforcement sensitivity related to sensation seeking (SS) were not found, although this trait and the EPQ scales were correlated with the Reward and Punishment Expectancy scales from a newly developed...

Several clinical studies have reported that schizophrenics show higher electrodermal activity (SCL and SCR) on their right compared to their left hand (R>L). According to Eysenck's personality model, schizophrenia is located at the extreme pole of the psychoticism dimension (P). Thus, it could be hypothesized that normal Ss with high P scores will also show a R>L pattern, especially in comparis...

the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between personality extraversion-introversion with job satisfaction in disabled employees. this  was a descriptive-analytical study of correlation type. the target population included all of the disabled employed in the offices of aligudarz county who were 100 people, which were selected by census method, and all of them completed the questio...

The present study investigated the influence of personality on exercise-induced mood changes. It was hypothesised that (a) exercise would be associated with significant mood enhancement across all personality types, (b) extroversion would be associated with positive mood and neuroticism with negative mood both pre- and post-exercise, and (c) personality measures would interact with exercise-ind...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the mental health status, and the risk factors associated with mild psychiatric disorders, of female foreign spouses (from Vietnam, Indonesia, and mainland China) in southern Taiwan, and to understand the mental health needs of these women. METHODS One hundred and twenty nine participants were willing to participate in this study. All partic...