BACKGROUND Little is known about the cross-national population prevalence or correlates of personality disorders. AIMS To estimate prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV personality disorder clusters in the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. METHOD International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) screening questions in 13 countries (n = 21 162) were calibrated to...

Based on the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) follow-up survey, we examined relationships between dimensions of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) personality disorders and both subjective and objective memory functioning in a community population. Our study subjects consisted of 736 individuals from the ECA follow-up study of the original Baltimore ECA c...

In recent years, medical faculties at Dutch universities have implemented a legally binding study advice to students of medicine and biomedical sciences during their propaedeutic phase. Appropriate examination is essential to discriminate between poor (grade <6), moderate (grade 6-8) and excellent (grade ≥8) students. Therefore, we compared the discriminatory properties of extended matching que...

Organizations are investing substantial resources in technical security measures that aim at preventively protecting their information assets. The way management – or information security executives – deals with potential security measures varies individually and depends on personality traits and cognitive factors. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, the authors examine the relationship be...

vated the development in 45.42% of cases. The psychological examination showed emotional instability in 37 cases (74%), anxious depression in 33 cases (66%), impossibility to pass over frustrating situations in 23 cases (46%), difficulties in adjustment in 17 cases (34%), psychasthenical personality (existential insecurity) in 26 cases (52%), and disharmonic personality in 19 cases (38%). In ad...

The present ex post facto study aims to find out the prevalence of personality disorders (PD) in patients with eating disorders (ED) and to determine the concordance between the IPDE and MCMI-II to assess PDs in patients with an ED. Using the International Personality Disorders Examination (IPDE) and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II) it was compared the personality profile i...

OBJECTIVE To test the reliability and applicability of Urdu translation of the International personality disorder examination (IPDE) in a psychiatric outpatient population in Pakistan. METHODS This study was conducted at the outpatient department of Fatima Memorial Hospital Lahore from April 2012 to March 2013. Patients considered to have a personality disorder by a psychiatrist were initiall...

BACKGROUND Although research into the continuity and change of personality traits during a lifespan has been fairly extensive, little research has been conducted on childhood predictors of adult personality. PURPOSE We aimed to investigate the association between infant socioeconomic status (SES), and Eysenck personality traits in adulthood. An additional aim was to investigate whether intell...