The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationships among perceived parental attitudes and domains of social competence in late adolescents. Forty boys and 40 girls, all aged 18, representing a population sample of high school second graders were examined. Self-report data were collected using questionnaires of parent-child relations and of social competence. Analyses detected a significant ...

THE PURPOSE of this report is to describe how persons having rheumatoid arthritis differ from unaffected controls in their recall of early parent+hild relations. The hypotheses examined in this study were mainly derived from research presented in several major reviews [l-3], as well as from case reports [4-61. Cross-reference to research articles shows that findings specifically describing pare...

Any modern organization hoping to retain a competitive advantage must be capable of integrating knowledge. Recent studies have explored various factors that may affect knowledge integration in information systems development (ISD) projects. Although diversity within an ISD team has been found to significantly reduce knowledge resource risks, it has also been found to lead to conflict which may ...

Background Interpersonal problems are thought to play an essential role in the development and maintenance of eating disorders. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether a specific interpersonal profile could be identified in a group of patients diagnosed with Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, or Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified, and to explore if specific types of i...

BACKGROUND Research has documented significant associations between life stress, especially interpersonal stress, and suicidal ideation in adolescents. Little is known about variables that explain the association between interpersonal stress and suicidal ideation. METHODS The present study evaluated a conceptual model in which interpersonal stress (chronic and episodic) predicted suicidal ide...

Mindfulness parenting involves parents be able to pay attention to their adolescent and their own reactions to statements and behaviors of adolescents without judgmental attitude. It is also expected that parents who have greater mindfulness in their interpersonal interactions with their adolescent also children would be more likely to exhibit discipline practices which are accordance to cultur...

Considerable research has been devoted to identifying individuals predisposed to schizophrenia, with much of the effort devoted to identifying the personality characteristics of the biological relatives of schizophrenia patients. Although resource-consuming interviews have yielded promising results, investigators have long sought self-report measures that index genetic risk for schizophrenia. T...

The ability to maintain an appropriate physical distance (i.e., interpersonal distance) from others is a critical aspect of social interaction and contributes importantly to real-life social functioning. In Study 1, using parent-report data that had been acquired on a large number of individuals (ages 4-18 years) for the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange and the Simons Simplex Collection, we fou...