There are many social concerns towards HIV disease and people feel irrational fears of infection modes virus transmission. These factors might affect the temperament character dimensions, as well cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Accordingly, psychological therapies can be used beneficial tools to identify mitigate related concerns. This study aimed at comparing effectiveness Schema Ther...

Cloninger has proposed a tridimensional model as the basis for the classification of personality variants and has developed the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) as an empirical test of this model. In this study, the TPQ was administered to two groups of young men. One group was comprised of nonalcoholic sons of male alcoholics; the other group consisted of nonalcoholic men with no...

The personality systems of Cloninger (as measured by the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire [TPQ]) and Eysenck (as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire [EPQ]) both have been linked to substance use and abuse. The current study examined the predictive utility of both systems for substance use disorder (SUD) diagnoses, both cross-sectionally and prospectively. Participants (N =...

According to psychobiological model of personality proposed by Cloninger, personality traits characterizing enhanced tendency to novel stimuli, impulsivity and sociability are influenced by dopaminergic system functioning. The present study considered both the main effect of two polymorphic loci ( VNTR and 2319G>A ) in dopamine transporter gene ( DAT1 ) and the role of distinct DAT1 gene haplot...