background: the abo blood types are thought to affect the roots of human behavior and act as a predictor of individuals’ personality. the present study aimed to evaluate the relationship between personality factors and the abo blood group. methods: this cross-sectional study used quota, convenience sampling to select 160 students from shahid beheshti university of medical sciences (tehran, iran...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the association between quality of life (QOL) and type D personality, which is characterized by the traits of negative affectivity and social inhibition, and to further identify impacts of these traits after controlling for biophysical and psychological factors in colorectal cancer survivors. DESIGN Cross-sectional and correlational. SETTING Oncology and surgic...

the purpose of this study was to determine the factors and facets of five factor model in people with borderline and schizotypal personality traits.190 kharazmi university students completed three questionnaires: goldberg inventory, borderline personality inventory (bpi) and schizotypal personality questionnaire-brief (spq-b). participants, according to cut off points of borderline personality ...

background labor pain is one of the most intense pains. physiological, personality, psychological, cultural, and environmental factors are related to the labor pain. pain is a strong stressor which can have great impacts on women’s reproductive, mental, and physical health; therefore, its harmful effects should be reduced. thus, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between the ...

While two factors are currently thought to underlie individual differences in schizotypal personality, three factors may best explain schizotypal traits. This study used confirmatory factor analysis to assess five competing models of schizotypal personality in the general population: null model, one-factor model, simple two-factor model, Kendler two-factor model, and three-factor model. The com...

Can the onset of PTSD symptoms and depression be predicted by personality factors and thought control strategies? A logical explanation for the different mental health outcomes of individuals exposed to trauma would seem to be personality factors and thought control strategies. Trauma exposure is necessary but not sufficient for the development of PTSD. To this end, we assess the role of person...

The stability of individual differences is a fundamental issue in personality psychology. Although accumulating evidence suggests that many psychological attributes are both stable and change over time, existing research rarely takes advantage of theoretical models that capture both stability and change. In this article, we present the Meta-Analytic Stability and Change model (MASC), a novel me...

The state-of-the art of psychological knowledge about the personality types is distilled to provide a basis for the specification of fuzzy agents with dynamic personality for the simulation of human behavior. The thirty facets, clustered in five traits (or, factors) to determine the personality types are outlined. Three concise representations of the primary characteristics of human personality...