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PubMed2006

Personality traits in early phases of panic disorder: implications on the presence of agoraphobia, clinical severity and short-term outcome.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the relations between personality traits using the Big Five model and presence of agoraphobia, clinical severity and short-term outcome in an unbiased clinical sample of never-treated panic disorder patients. METHOD: Panic disorder (PD) patients (n = 103) in the first stages of their illness were evaluated using the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Five Factor Inventory of Personality (NEO-FFI) and were compared with a sample of healthy subjects. Severity was assessed by the Panic Disorder Severity Scale and the Clinical Global Impression Scales. Patients were evaluated after 8 weeks of naturalistic pharmacologic treatment with Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. RESULTS: Panic disorder patients show more neuroticism than healthy subjects. Patients suffering from agoraphobia are more introverted than controls. Extraversion, in addition to gender and distress, during panic attacks allows to correctly classifying 72% of the cases of agoraphobia. CONCLUSION: Low scores in extraversion contribute to explain the presence of agoraphobia in panic disorder. Personality traits are neither related to clinical severity nor to short-term response to pharmacological treatment.

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PubMed1977

Intelligence and imagery in personality.

One hundred college undergraduates were administered the Richardson revision of the Gordon Test of Visual Imagery Control, the Betts-Sheehan Questionnaire Upon Mental Imagery, and the Shipley-Hartford Institute of Living Scale. The latter provided a conceptual quotient (CQ) score of intellectual impairment based upon a ratio between vocabulary and abstraction scores. Subjects with CQs above 100 had significantly higher control scores (p less than .02). High control subjects had significantly higher total IQ scores than did low control subjects (p less than .04). Subjects with high and medium range control had higher vocabulary scores than those with low control. This suggests possible assessment of proneness toward introverted and extraverted neuroticism based upon a combination type of imagery score and the ratio between abstract or vocabulary scores. The connection of imagery with dimensions of IQ may be a start toward a more refined measure of this aspect of personality. Problems and implications are discussed.

Auditory Perception↗
PubMed1996

Predicting dentists' career choices using the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a psychological measure designed to determine personality preferences, learning styles and management styles and to assist with career choices. The authors surveyed 1,117 practicing dentists to determine if the MBTI was useful in determining which respondents were most likely to be specialists. They found no significant differences between general practitioners and specialists.

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Mediators of daily stress and perceived health status in adolescent girls.

A causal model based on the transactional cognitive theory of psychological stress and coping was tested in a middle adolescent female population to determine the effects of daily stress, introspectiveness, and coping efforts on perceived health status. Daily stress was hypothesized to affect perceived health status both directly and through the mediating variables of introspectiveness and coping efforts. A sample of 159 female adolescents completed the Hassles Scale, the Ways of Coping Checklist-Revised, the Introspectiveness Scale for Adolescents and the General Health Rating Index. The causal model was tested using the LISREL VI program. Findings indicated that the model fit the data, indicating a plausible representation of the relationships among the variables identified (x2 = 15.76, df = 12, p less than .203). Daily stress was significantly negatively related to perceived health status through the mediating variables of introspection and problem-focused coping but not emotion-focused coping. Introspectiveness had a significant direct effect on perceived health status. Problem-focused coping was found to have a direct positive effect on perceived health status.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1987

[Subjective registration of fetal movements. Relation to typologic-psychologic markers in pregnant patients].

The influence of psychic factors on the accuracy of counting of fetal movements (FM) by pregnant women is investigated. The typologic features extraversion/introversion, stability/lability and vegetative lability are the criterion of judgement. Introverted pregnant women note FM under the condition of extensive protection of external irritation more exactly than extraverted pregnant women. Under the influence of an external irritation by transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TNS) no differences are to be seen. Psychic stable pregnant women are not as much alterable by external irritations as unstable pregnant women. Psychic stable pregnant women count FM under the influence of TNS more exactly than psychic unstable pregnant women. Without the influence of TNS there is no difference between stable and instable pregnant women concerning perception of FM.

Arousal↗
PubMed1984

[Dynamics of psychogenic depressive disorders occasioned by the birth of a sick child into a family].

In order to study the time-course of depressive neurosis, the author followed up 51 women living under the conditions of a prolonged psychotraumatic situation (the presence in the family of a child with infantile cerebral paralysis). Two variants of depressive disturbances formation closely associated with the premorbid characteristics of the patients' personality have been identified. It was shown that with passing years the neurotic disturbances led to a clinically homogeneous neurotic development of depressive nature. The author outlines the mechanism of the time-course of the given type of borderline disturbances, proceding from neurotic depressive reactions to depressive neurosis and further to a specific development of the personality.

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PubMed2001

Vulnerability factors for common mental illnesses.

BACKGROUND: Twin studies suggest that shared early family environment is of only minor importance in the aetiology of depression, most of the variance being attributable either to genetic or to individual 'non-shared' environmental factors. AIMS: To examine the respective roles of personality and social experiences on the risk for common mental disorders, with special reference to depression. METHOD: Analysis of preliminary findings from two large-scale British population surveys: (a) a multi-centre study of general practice patients, and (b) a study of working-class women in Manchester. RESULTS: (a) Persons recently separated from their partners have raised mean scores for psychological distress, but the relative excess is due entirely to persons with high ratings for introversion; (b) while severe life events were associated with physiological responses characteristic of depression, the probability of experiencing such life events varied between 0.2 monthly for low scorers and 1.5 monthly for high scorers on a vulnerability measure. CONCLUSIONS: Social factors do appear to influence the prevalence of depression, but this effect is not independent of genetically determined vulnerability.

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