In the context of the trend toward delayed parenthood, this study examines whether older maternal age is associated with greater psychological maturity and whether greater psychological maturity provides any adaptive benefit during the transition to motherhood. A sample of 240 predominantly English-speaking Australian women in a metropolitan area expecting their 1st baby (mean age = 32.81 years...

In a community sample of 116 children, assessments of parent-child interaction, parent-child attachment, and various parental, child, and contextual characteristics at 15 and 28 months and at age 5 were used to predict externalizing behavior at age 5, as rated by parents and teachers. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis and path analysis yielded a significant longitudinal model for the pr...

If a visual observer moves through an environment, the patterns of light that impinge its retina vary leading to changes in sensed brightness. Spatial shifts of brightness patterns in the 2D image over time are called optic flow. In contrast to optic flow visual motion fields denote the displacement of 3D scene points projected onto the camera’s sensor surface. For translational and rotational ...

Ego-disturbances have been a topic in schizophrenia research since the earliest clinical descriptions of the disorder. Manifesting as a feeling that one's "self," "ego," or "I" is disintegrating or that the border between one's self and the external world is dissolving, "ego-disintegration" or "dissolution" is also an important feature of the psychedelic experience, such as is produced by psilo...

In a 2 X 2 X 2 design, male high school students received from a high or low credibility source a communication that was either plausible or implausible, and that was given under highor low-ego-involvement conditions. Results indicated greater attitude change in low-ego-involvement-high-sourcecredibility conditions than in the other three combinations of source credibility and ego involvement. ...

Fourteen ego functions were rated i 35 Egyptian major depressive patlents using a semi-structured Intervhw. The mean total ego functions was found to be greater than that of schizophrenics and lower than that of neurotks and normal controls in previous studies. The highest score was for sense of reality and the lowest for ARISE. Inter-rater reliability was slgnillcantly high. In te r relationsh...