BACKGROUND The relationship between depression and heart disease is very complex. In the group of patients with depression the coronary artery disease risk factors related to lifestyle (lack of physical activity, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes) are frequently observed. For many years, researchers have been interested in the relationship between personality and the tendency to collapse on s...

BACKGROUND Type D (distressed) personality has been associated with adverse cardiac prognosis and poor emotional well-being in cardiac patients, but it is still unclear what mechanisms link Type D personality with poor clinical outcomes in cardiac patients. In the present cohort of Icelandic cardiac patients, we examined potential pathways that may explain this relationship. The objectives were...

Although type-nouns (e.g., idiot, hero) are important in person description, lexical studies of personality have concentrated on adjectives. This study tested structural hypotheses using 372 highly familiar English-language type-nouns and descriptions by 607 participants of either themselves, a liked, or a disliked target person. One- and 2-factor structures were most robust, and replicated sim...

BACKGROUND Influences of the Big Five personality traits on the treatment response and longitudinal course of depression in patients with acute coronary syndrome: A randomised controlled trial. METHODS This naturalistic observational study initially recruited 1152 ACS patients; 685 patients completed personality assessments at baseline, of whom 630 were followed-up one year later. Of the 294 ...

Background. Several researchers have studied the effects of type of feedback on learning motor skills, but there are few studies on the interaction between personality traits and the type of feedback. Objectives. This study aimed at investigating the effect of type of feedback on intrinsic motivation and learning volleyball jump serve in students with neuroticism. Methods. A total of 59 femal...

introduction: mental health is a branch of science focused on promoting welfare, social welfare, and life health which is related to all periods (from birth to death) and aspects of life (family environment, school, university, appointment, and society). personality is a collection of mental characteristics that consistently exists within individuals and influences their behaviors and thoughts....

The term 'narcissistic personality' is an unfortunate one, for it evokes the multiple and confusing usages and controversies involving the narcissism concept—as a particular type of libido with a special course, as the designation for the earliest (undifferentiated) development state, as a type of object choice, as an aspect of internalization, as a regressive configuration, and, of course, as ...