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The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society (163)3 2011
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Delay discounting procedures are used to assess self-control vs. impulsivity on a behavioural level. Such procedures include a presentation of a series of choices between smaller, immediate and larger, delayed rewards. The Delay Discounting Test (DDT) by Kirby is an elegant and relatively short proce...
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PMID: 21656436
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A key role in anaesthetic practice is gathering and assimilating information from a variety of sources to construct and maintain an accurate mental model of what is happening to the patient, a model that will influence subsequent decisions made by the anaesthetist on the patient's behalf, as part of...
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PMID: 21550544
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This article starts from a social science viewpoint and reviews the concepts and measurement of safety culture and climate in their original industrial settings and in health care. Typical items measured and generic characteristics of a positive safety culture are described. The role of personality,...
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PMID: 21550547
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We suggest looking at a combined measure of the AEE of both spouses as a dyadic attribute. We examine the contribution of each spouse's level of AEE as well as joint couple AEE to explain variations in the marital relationship. Data were collected from both spouses of 226 Israeli couples. Findings i...
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PMID: 21486269
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We consider the limitations of these approaches and review more recent research that has focused on the heterogeneity of outcomes following aversive events. Using both traditional analytic tools and sophisticated latent trajectory modeling, this research has identified a set of prototypical outcome...
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PMID: 21091190
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Psychiatry Research (189)1 2011
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We investigated self-defining memories (SDM) in 24 patients with schizophrenia and 24 controls to explore how illness-related SDM were integrated into the self at both the cognitive (how participants are able to give a meaning to past events: meaning making) and affective levels (how participants ca...
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PMID: 21459459
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Acta Neurologica Belgica (111)1 2011
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We describe the case of a 36-year-old man presenting with cognitive impairment and personality change. General paresis of the insane, the chronic cerebral parenchymatous form of neurosyphilis, was diagnosed. MRI showed the typical severe frontotemporal atrophy. Despite antibiotic treatment his mental...
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PMID: 21510239
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The present study addressed whether experienced ease of retrieval of autobiographical events affects trait judgments made immediately and after a delay (Experiment 1) and whether this influence is modulated by either of two discounting instructions (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, participants first...
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PMID: 21834404
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This study investigated the psychological reactions of survivors of the 512 Wenchuan earthquake in China and the risk factors associated with those reactions. The Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), Type D Scale-14 (DS14), a self-developed trauma experience questionniare, and a de...
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PMID: 21799838
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Hepato-gastroenterology (58)109 2011
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The effectiveness of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) in measuring the quality of life (QOL) and personality in obese patients has not been previously investigated. This study aims to investigate different clinical outcome variables, the relationships between quality of life and...
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PMID: 21937388
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Reconstruction after mastectomy has become an integral part of breast cancer treatment. The effects of psychological factors on quality of life after reconstruction have been poorly investigated. The authors examined clinical and personality characteristics related to quality of life in patients rec...
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PMID: 21200194
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Journal of Black Studies (42)3 2011
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This study highlights the importance of examining the influence of personality measures, specifically authoritarianism, on negative racial stereotyping, even in an era of alleged color blindness. The authors examine the relationship of various demographic variables and authoritarianism with negative...
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PMID: 21905323
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Journal of Psychology (145)2 2011
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The purpose of this article was to offer an empirical test of J. H. Greenhaus and G. N. Powell's (2006) model of work-family enrichment by examining dispositional (i.e., core self-evaluations; CSEs) and situational (i.e., perceived organizational support; POS) factors associated with work-to-family e...
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PMID: 21449248
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Psychiatry Research (188)1 2011
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If the factors affecting the mental health status of adolescents and their association with sleep status could be clarified, this information would be helpful for formulating lifestyle and healthcare guidance for the promotion of healthy growth and the prevention of mental problems in these individua...
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PMID: 21145596
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Harvard Business Review (88)12 2010
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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This study aims to discover whether observers with the same cultural background as the inhabitant of a bedroom perceive common characteristics among the inhabitants. The study was carried out with 107 females who were asked to assess the inhabitants of eight bedrooms. Several slides of each bedroom...
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PMID: 21044526
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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In this study, the predictive power of hardy personality and generalized self-efficacy on general health perception was investigated in a sample of nursing personnel working in emergency and intensive care services. A cross-sectional retrospective design was used, and the following measurement instr...
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PMID: 21044485
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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This research examines the incremental validity of irrational thinking as conceptualized by Albert Ellis to predict diverse aspects of subjective well-being while controlling for the influence of personality factors. Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) argues that irrational beliefs result in m...
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PMID: 21044476
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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We approach the problem about relationships between personality dimensions and the use of coping strategies in chronic pain patients. The most frequently used theoretical model in the area of stress and its relation to pain is the transactional model, taking into account that the incorporation of pe...
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PMID: 21044475
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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The incidence of spontaneous anovulatory (SA) menstrual cycles among dysmenorrheic and non-dysmenorrheic women and their effects on symptomatology and mood were examined in 52 university students distributed into two groups (18 dysmenorrheic women and 34 non-dysmenorrheic women) according to the pre...
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PMID: 21044493
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Psicothema (22)4 2010
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In the Anglo-Saxon scientific literature, successful aging has been consolidated during the last four decades. Nevertheless, several terms have been used as synonymous: healthy, active, productive, optimal, positive aging. Although, all these terms have been described through a broad set of bio-psyc...
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PMID: 21044491
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to examine the effects of socially enriched versus socially impoverished environments on performance and alertness decline during sleep deprivation in extraverts versus introverts.
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PMID: 21102989
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Primary Dental Care (17)4 2010
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The aim of this paper is to introduce the reader to personal construct psychology as a theory to help understand the process of change in facilitative and mentoring relationships.
Continuing professional development is critical if practitioners are to keep up to date with new ideas, techniques, and...
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PMID: 20887672
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Very little is known about the psychosocial correlates of psychological morbidity among Chinese people with epilepsy (PWE). No studies have investigated the association between social relationships and psychological morbidity, while most studies examined only the negative impact of maladaptive perso...
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PMID: 20702122
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Annals of Medicine (42)7 2010
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More than six decades of empirical research have shown that psychosocial risk factors like low socio-economic status, lack of social support, stress at work and family life, depression, anxiety, and hostility contribute both to the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) and the worsening of...
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PMID: 20839918
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Psychological Medicine (40)10 2010
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These results challenge the equivalence assumption for the symptomatic criteria for MD and suggest a more than expected degree of 'covert' heterogeneity among these criteria. Part of this heterogeneity is captured by the distinction between cognitive versus neurovegetative symptoms, with cognitive s...
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PMID: 20059797
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Psychological Medicine (40)10 2010
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Severity is an important characteristic of major depression (MD) and an 'episode specifier' in DSM-IV classifying depressive episodes as 'mild', 'moderate' or 'severe'. These severity subtypes rely on three different measures of severity: number of criteria symptoms, severity of the symptoms and deg...
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PMID: 20056021
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Psychiatry Research (186)1 2011
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Our data underline the necessity of taking into account symptom subgroups when dealing with specific cognitive dysfunctions in schizophrenia....
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PMID: 20850874
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British Dental Journal (209)5 2010
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We currently live in an 'Information Age' fuelled mainly by the Internet, with an ever-increasing medically and dentally literate population. The media has played its role by reporting scientific advances, as well as securitising medical and dental practices. Reality television such as 'Extreme make...
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PMID: 20829856
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Aging and Mental Health (14)7 2010
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To compare health-related quality of life (HRQOL) between younger and older patients with established rheumatic disorders and to assess the relative impact of a number of psychosocial parameters on HRQOL.
In a cross-sectional study of 320 patients (245 < 65 and 75 > or = 65 years old, response rate:...
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PMID: 20635230
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This paper explores five examples of envy, examining the similarities and differences between the clinical situations. The theory relating to envy is extensively reviewed and a critique of the Kleinian position is offered, suggesting that the aversion to separation and difference is not only prior t...
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PMID: 20883305
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These results suggest that-although dissociable-diverse forms of self-referential thought draw on a shared cognitive process subserved by MPFC....
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PMID: 20711940
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Nature Neuroscience (13)8 2010
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Zhonghua lao dong wei sheng zhi ye bing za zhi = Zhonghua laodong weisheng zhiyebing zazhi = Chinese journal of industrial hygiene and occupational diseases (28)8 2010
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To analyse the relationship between coping strategy and occupational stress in rail freight dispatchers.
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PMID: 21126446
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The objectives of this study were to compare the personality profiles of adolescent males with and without Internet addiction disorder (IAD), and to determine if IAD is associated with specific parental rearing behaviors. A total of 304 subjects (204 IAD positive and 100 IAD negative controls) compl...
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PMID: 20712498
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While the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) has gained increasing attention as a measure of noncriminal psychopathy, absent has been research involving samples including business people. This study investigated the validity of the PPI with such a population by examining the association betwee...
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PMID: 20695808
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We present a comprehensive review of the literature, allowing us to pinpoint the major gaps in knowledge and determine what research challenges lay ahead. An exhaustive search of five scientific databases identified 210 relevant research reports. These articles began to appear in the 1930s, but it w...
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PMID: 20568079
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Activity level is a core but understudied individual difference. Understanding patterns of physical activity over long periods may be key to understanding why some individuals develop healthy lifestyles. The present study transformed qualitative information from the Terman Life Cycle Study to examin...
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PMID: 20573949
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Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefo...
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PMID: 19781779
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Der Chirurg (81)8 2010
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The present day and future requirement profiles for leading surgeons have become manifold and are defined as such. Many requirements are teachable and learnable, such as economy and management. It is more difficult to form a leading personality out of a capable surgeon and can only succeed if the pe...
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PMID: 20552153
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Surgery residents obtained greater scores for Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Emotional Stability, but lower scores for Openness compared with community norms (all P < .05). Controlling for desirable responding, surgery residents also obtained greater Conscientiousness scores compared with medi...
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PMID: 20570302
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The goal of this naturalistic study was to examine heterogeneity among female and male civil psychiatric patients with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Participants were 567 patients drawn from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study (J. Monahan et al., 2001). The auth...
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PMID: 20677845
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Terror management theory posits that people tend to respond defensively to reminders of death, including worldview defense, self-esteem striving, and suppression of death thoughts. Seven experiments examined whether trait mindfulness-a disposition characterized by receptive attention to present expe...
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PMID: 20658848
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Research has shown that an individual's implicit power motive relates to 2 types of behavioral clusters: either prosocial, socially appropriate behaviors or profligate, impulsive behaviors. The present study examined the relationship between individuals' implicit power motives and their tendency to...
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PMID: 20658850
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These results imply that behavioral consistency in daily life stems from multiple sources, including situation selection and the distinctive influence of personality, and further suggest that tools for situational assessment such as the RSQ can have wide utility....
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PMID: 20658847
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We revealed reciprocal genetic and environmental effects between traits and life goals. In sum, our findings yield partial support for both of the 2 competing personality theories, suggesting a readjusted picture of the interplay between traits and goals....
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PMID: 20658849
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There were significant differences in the physical component (F = 10.80, P<0.001) of the general HRQoL as well as in anxiety (F = 7.23, P<0.01) and neuroticism (F = 8.90, P<0.01) between patients with IBS and IBD. IBS patients showed a significantly higher level of anxiety and neuroticism and better...
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PMID: 19701092
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Approximately one-third of the sample (n = 262) was overweight at 15 years of age. Compared with their nonoverweight peers, overweight adolescents aged 15 years were about a half standard deviation (SD) lower in self-control at 9 years of age (unstandardized difference, 0.15; pooled SD, 0.29; P < .0...
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PMID: 20603463
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Developmental Psychology (46)4 2010
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In a sample of 7,695 families in the prospective, nationally representative British Millennium Cohort Study, this study examined whether characteristics of the 1st-born child predicted parents' timing and probability of having another child within 5 years after the 1st child's birth. Infant temperam...
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PMID: 20604611
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Traditionally, it has been assumed that intellectual development in children with growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is distributed between ranges of a normal population based on the observation that it does not differ substantially from that of children of the same age. Nevertheless, f...
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PMID: 20684123
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We also report the distributions of scores for the 3 subscales, mean differences among the 3 national samples, and correlations with a measure of dogmatism (M. Rokeach, 1956)....
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PMID: 20528052
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There has been an exponential increase of interest in the dark side of human nature during the last decade. To better understand this dark side, the authors developed and validated a concise, 12-item measure of the Dark Triad: narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism. In 4 studies involving 1,085 p...
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PMID: 20528068
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We examined whether patients with CAD who suppress their anger are at risk of adverse events. At baseline, 644 patients with CAD completed measures of anger, anger-in (reluctance to express anger), and Type D personality (tendency to experience distress and to be inhibited). The combination of high...
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PMID: 20494661
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We gathered data on personality and behavior of 166 residents of psychogeriatric nursing homes. Nursing staff filled out the Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory (Dutch version, CMAI-D). Proxy family members completed the Hetero Anamnestic Personality questionnaire (HAP). Results showed that on the C...
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PMID: 20593739
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We studied 418 individuals making the transition to the independence of college across 3 longitudinal waves. Each of 2 longitudinal models predicting typical drinking quantity provided support for the AP process. In the first, drinking quantity at the end of the first year of college was predicted b...
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PMID: 20565146
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