Wright, O'Leary, and Balkin (1989) have laudably used an empirical approach to increase our understanding of the roles played by shame, guilt, and sex differences in depression and narcissism. However, the lack of construct validity for the guilt scale they used seriously compromises some of their conclusions. At variance with those conclusions, other studies suggest that guilt may not be less ...

Literature is replete with the never ending controversy about the role of guilt and hostility in depressive subjects. Feelings of guilt in depressive subjects have been found to be associated with shame as well as unworthiness over past sin and failures, (Redlich and Freedman, 1966). A subject matter of great concern has been the low incidence of guilt in non-occidental cultures. A large number...

OBJECTIVE Schizophrenia has been associated with a high rate of suicide. This study investigates the prevalence of suicidal ideation in a population of inpatients with acute schizophrenia, together with the clinical parameters associated with suicidal thoughts. METHOD We assessed 93 schizophrenia patients. We matched subjects for age and sex and compared subjects with and without suicidal tho...

Sociosexuality, comfort with sex outside the confines of a committed relationship, and parent–child dynamics have been associated experiences guilt. However, mechanisms through which family are related to sociosexuality guilt still unclear. Using developmental framework, in cross-sectional study, we examined whether attachment styles relationships would be development maintenance sociosexuality...

This is the first systematic review of the evidence on the prevalence of self-blame, guilt, and shame in bereaved parents. A search of PsychINFO, MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PubMed, and Science Direct resulted in 18 studies for the period 1975 to 2013 which the authors have appraised. Self-blame, guilt, and shame are common in bereaved parents, albeit to varying degrees, with differential relation...

Background Men who have sex with men (MSM), sex workers (SW) and people who use drugs (PWUD) are at increased risk for HIV because of multiple socio-structural barriers and do not have adequate access to appropriate HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment services. Objective To examine the context of access to healthcare experienced by these three 'Key Populations', we conducted a qualitative...

The aim of the study was to explore prevalence specific symptoms depression in athletes and test differences likelihood exhibiting these across age, sex, type team sport, level competition. A sample Icelandic male female sport ( N = 894, 18–42 years) included study. Of clinically significant depressive on Patient Health Questionnaire-9, 37.5% did not exhibit core depression. Compared with males...

An individual's first sexual experience is a highly salient and meaningful event, with potential to shape sexual scripts and the affect associated with sexual expression. Using data from the National Health and Social Life Survey, we tested abstinence-only advocates; assertions that premarital sex results in psychological and physical harm such as sexual dysfunction, sex guilt, poor health, sex...