OBJECTIVE To determine the associations between personality subscales and attendance at gastric cancer screenings in Japan. METHODS A total of 21,911 residents in rural Japan who completed a short form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised (EPQ-R) and a questionnaire on various health habits including the number of gastric cancer screenings attended were included in the primary ana...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to confirm the main hypothesis of this work indicating that impairment of abstract thinking is met with in non psychotic psychiatric patients more than is usually believed. Method: The study group consists of 60 subjects; 20 non psychotic psychiatric patients (1 0 obsessives and 10 conversion), 20 schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. Impaired abstract...

the main purpose of this study was to examine psychometric properties of a short version of the self-regulation inventory (sri-s) including internal consistency, test-retest reliability, content validity, and convergent and discriminant validity. three hundred and fifty seven iranian volunteers (150 males, 207 females) were included in this study. all participants were asked to complete the sri...

Anxiety about and fear of dental treatment have been recognized as sources of problems in the management of child dental patients. It has been suggested that some individuals who are fearful of or anxious about dental treatment have a constitutional vulnerability to anxiety disorders as is evidenced by the presence of multiple fears, generalized anxiety or panic disorders. Concerning the child ...

PURPOSE We sought to investigate the relationship between interictal personality changes and white matter abnormalities in epilepsy patients. METHODS A total of 65 individuals with epilepsy and 40 demographically matched controls were evaluated by Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) on 3T. Fractional anisotropy (FA) values of fibers were acquired. The re...

BACKGROUND We believe that instances of neuroticism and common psychiatric disorders are higher in adults with acne vulgaris than the normal population. OBJECTIVE Instances of acne in adults have been increasing in frequency in recent years. The aim of this study was to investigate personality traits and common psychiatric conditions in patients with adult acne vulgaris. METHODS Patients wh...

The purpose of the study was to examine whether poor working conditions influenced drivers' psychological health, and to identify drivers' personality characteristics. The subjects were 208 bus drivers working in the European sector in Istanbul. Their personality characteristics, psychological symptoms and anxiety levels were investigated using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ), the S...

and environmental components of inconsistency and unrepeatability in twins' responses to a neurotidsm questionnaire. Behavior Genetics, 1976, 6, 145-160. (a) Eaves, L., & Eysenck, H. J. Genotype X Age interaction for neuroticism. Behavior Genetics, 1976, 6, 359-362. (b) Eaves, L., & Eysenck, H. J, Genotype-environmental model for psychoticism. Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1977, 1...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the long-term outcome and changes of the personality and psychopathological profile of opiate addicts after bilateral stereotactic nucleus accumbens (NAc) ablative surgery. METHODS 60 patients were followed up for 5 years and abstinent status and adverse events were evaluated. NAc lesion volumes and locations were obtained by postoperative MRI scans. The Chinese versi...