OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to investigate the relationships among job stress, job satisfaction, and mental health in marine officers. METHODS The researchers gathered data on marine officers working at a harbor in Chungcheong Province, South Korea, using a self-reported questionnaire. Mental health was measured by the Symptom Checklist-90-Revision (SCL-90-R), and general characterist...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to analyze the relationships among thought-shape fusion (TSF), specific instruments to assess body image disturbances, and body image quality of life in eating disorder patients in order to improve the understanding of the links between body image concerns and a specific bias consisting of beliefs about the consequences of thinking about forbidden foods. PATI...

BACKGROUND The somatosensory amplification scale (SSAS) is a 10-item self-report instrument designed to assess a tendency to experience normal somatic and visceral sensations as intense, noxious, and disturbing. OBJECTIVES The present study investigated the reliability and validity of the SSAS, developed by Barsky et al. (1988), in the Iranian population. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was...

BACKGROUND Adolescent brain may be particularly vulnerable to alcohol.  Plus, psychopathological disorders tend to emerge in this period. Consequently, early alcohol use may increase the risk of psychopathological disorders, with time and sex-dependent effects. However, few studies have analyzed the relationship between alcohol consumption and adolescent psychopathology in the general popu...

BACKGROUND Internet-based screening for depression is becoming increasingly important. The aim of this study is to validate the Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) for internet administration. METHODS In 407 participants (64% women; 36% men) with subthreshold depression (mean age=55 years; S.D.=4.9) positive predictive values for a syndromal CIDI diagnosis of clinical depression were calculated ...

this paper reports the results of an epidemiological study of psychological disorders among the rural population of meibod, in the province of yazd, with an age range above 15 (n=400). the main instrument was scl-90-r. a score of 0.4 indicating gsi level and reported in a previous research was chosen as a cut off point. subjects scoring above this point and an equal random number scoring below ...

OBJECTIVE The authors investigated the concurrent and predictive validity of the DSM-III-R diagnosis of personality disorder in adolescents by means of baseline and follow-up assessments of inpatients treated at the Yale Psychiatric Institute. METHOD One hundred sixty-five hospitalized adolescents were reliably assessed by using a structured interview for personality disorder diagnoses as wel...