spiritual beliefs can help people find meaning of life, and can also influence their feelings, behaviors and mental health. the present research studied the relationship between basic religious beliefs (human, existence and god) and five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness.one hundred seventy eight students of islamic azad university in tor...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PAI: Personality Assessment Inventory; CCE: Child Custody Evaluation; MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2; MMPI-2-RF: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form; MCMI-III: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-Third Edition; PIM: Positive Impression Management; DOM: Dominance; WRM: Warmth; NEOPI: ...

5trmmary.-This study investigated the construct validity of the Narcissistic Personality Inventory against the Revised NEO Personality Inventory to test the hypothesis that narcissistic and nonnarcissistic people have different personality prof~les The two inventories were administered to 96 male and 92 female undergraduates Mulcivariate as well as univariate analyses of variance indicated that...

The aim of this study was to revise the Criticism Avoidance dimension of the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and to investigate its psychometric properties. The participants included 213 subjects aged 18 to 69 years (Mean = 25.56; Standard Deviation = 8.70), mostly females (N = 159; 74.3%). All participants answered the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory and the Brazilian ver...

Can human-normed personality scales alone give us a full picture of the attribution of personality to virtual agents? In humans, personality traits are often immediately ascribed: first impressions, influenced by posture and gesture, can be strong, lasting and accurate. Is there a similar immediate attribution of personality for virtual agents that can be similarly influenced by posture and ges...

With increasing recognition of venereal infection as a behavioural disease, considerable interest has been focused on the relationship of various psychosocial parameters to these diseases. Eysenck's (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1964) refinement of the personality inventory has provided a useful tool for obtaining quantitative indicators of one such parameterpersonality. The personality of venereal dis...

aim: given the importance of psychological factors in the incidence of physical pains, the present study has been conducted for the purpose of comparing mindfulness and type d personality among women diagnosed with non-cardiac chest pain and healthy women of tehran. method: the present research is descriptive and of causative-comparative type. the sample includes 60 women with non-cardiac chest...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the significance of purging behavior in the diagnosis of eating disorders through an objective assessment of eating disorder psychopathology including personality disorders. METHODS Subjects were 42 consecutive outpatients with eating disorders who visited the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic at Tokai University Hospital (Kanagawa, Japan). Diagnosis of eating and personali...

Measures of the Big Five factors of personality were used to predict a variety of criterion variables thought to represent behaviors of some social and cultural significance (e.g., alcohol consumption, grade point average). Analyses focused on replicated predictions across 2 independent samples of participants (Ns = 276 and 142) with 3 different measures of the Big Five (the NEO Five-Factor Inv...