OBJECTIVE To examine the joint hierarchical structure of two measures of adolescent personality pathology within a community sample of Canadian adolescents. METHOD Self-reported data on demographic information and pathological personality traits were obtained from 144 youth (M age = 16.08 years, SD = 1.30). Personality pathology was measured using the youth-version of the Schedule for Nonadap...

This article presents the problem of age differences between minors and their sexual partners. Understanding age differences is critical in finding solutions and formulating public policy. The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) studies showed that sexually active women in general have older sexual partners. However, minor aged women are more likely to have sexual partners very close to thei...

BACKGROUND Age-disparate partnerships are hypothesized to increase HIV-risk for young women. However, the evidence base remains mixed. Most studies have focused only on unprotected sex among women in the partnership. Consequently, little is known about other risky behaviours, such as transactional sex, alcohol use, and concurrency, as well as the behaviours of the men who partner with young wom...

This study examined the relationship that personal pronouns spoken during a marital conversation have with the emotional qualities of those interactions and with marital satisfaction. Middle-aged and older couples (N = 154) engaged in a 15-min conflict conversation during which physiology and emotional behavior were continuously monitored. Verbatim transcripts of the conversations were coded in...

OBJECTIVE Low control beliefs (CB) are related to objective cognitive functions, but the link between CB and subjective memory complaints (SMC) is unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between CB (level and change) and SMC over a 10-year span. METHODS The study utilized a large national sample of participants (N = 3272, M = 56.52, SD = 11.84) from the Midlife in t...

AIM To compare the original normative data of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) (n=2202) collected 20 years ago with a contemporary sample of Canadian infants. METHOD This was a cross-sectional cohort study of 650 Canadian infants (338 males, 312 females; mean age 30.9 wks [SD 15.5], range 2 wks-18 mo) assessed once on the AIMS. Assessments were stratified by age, and infants proportional...

This is a closely written pamphlet describing various sexual abnormalities as seen from the psycho-analytic angle and, as might be expected from its author, is a most readable and lively discussion of the development of these conditions, and of their need for sympathetic and skilled treatment. Dr. Glover illustrates clearly the chain of misfortune which results from the common reaction of sever...

Young men are more distressed by a partner's sexual infidelity, whereas young women are more distressed by a partner's emotional infidelity. The present research investigated (a) whether the sex difference in jealousy replicates in an older sample, and (b) whether younger people differ from older people in their selection of the more distressing infidelity scenario. We presented forced-choice d...