objectives: violence is a widespread problem that occurs all over the word among all ages, genders, races, educational level and socio- economic groups.  the aim of this study was to investigate modeling of different processes that could account for the link between experiencing spouse abuse in women and psychology, psychopathology, social and demographic factors. methods: data were gathered th...

BACKGROUND Panic disorder (PD) is a common disease and presents with broad dimensions of psychopathology. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is known to improve these broad dimensions of psychopathology in addition to PD symptoms. However, little is known about the predictors of treatment response in comorbid psychiatric symptoms after CBT for PD. Recent studies suggest that anxiety sensitivity...

in poor judgment, impaired insight, poor personal hygiene, and vulgar speech. This poorly characterizes the executive functions of the frontal lobes. Similar treatment is given to most subjects addressed in this book. Brevity may be forgiven if it occurs simultaneously with extensive documentation of primary or ancillary sources. The authors document sources infrequently, however, leaving the i...

BACKGROUND Recently, a general psychopathology dimension reflecting common aspects among disorders has been identified in adults. This has not yet been considered in children and adolescents, where the focus has been on externalising and internalising dimensions. AIMS To examine the existence, correlates and predictive value of a general psychopathology dimension in young people. METHOD Alt...

iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Lisa A. Harvey, for her thoughtful, timely, and patient guidance and support. She has intensified my passion for research and is a great role model for me. I would also like to extend my sincere appreciation to the members of my committee, Dr. for their helpful comments and suggestions throughout this project. ...

OBJECTIVE A strong association has been established between migraine and depression. However, this is the first study to differentiate in a large sample of migraine patients for symptom dimensions of the affective disorder spectrum. METHODS Migraine patients (n=3174) from the LUMINA (Leiden University Medical Centre Migraine Neuro-analysis Program) study and patients with current psychopathol...

Much of the knowledge about relationships among domains psychopathology is built on diagnostic categories described in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders ( DSM), relatively little research has examined symptom-level structure psychopathology. The aim this study was to delineate a detailed hierarchical model psychopathology—from individual symptoms up general factor psychopatholo...

We investigated the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC) scales (Tellegen et al., 2003) to determine if they had a more differentiated factor structure than the MMPI-2 Clinical scales. When factored alone, the RC scales had a 5-dimensional structure; the Clinical scales had 3 dimensions. When factored in combination with the Content scales, both sets of scales produced 5 dimensions. However, the R...