...Fuschia M. Sirois; Danielle S. Molnar Biopsychosocial models of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) posit that personality and stress have predisposing and perpetuating roles in the persistent and unexplained fatigue that characterizes this functional somatic syndrome [ 1 ]. Studies indicate...

... remains elusive. Personality traits have been studied extensively in this population, leading to different, and at times conflicting, results. Subtyping BED people along these features could add to our knowledge of the disorder. Methods: We applied a two-step cluster analysis, followed by bootstrapping...

...Urs M. Nater; James F. Jones; Jin-Mann S. Lin; Elizabeth Maloney; William C. Reeves; Christine Heim Background: Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) presents unique diagnostic and management challenges. Personality may be a risk factor for CFS and may contribute to the maintenance of the illness. Methods...

...Cédric Lemogne; Hermann Nabi; Marie Zins; Sylvaine Cordier; Pierre Ducimetière; Marcel Goldberg; Silla M. Consoli Background: Depressive mood is associated with mortality. Because personality has been found to be associated with depression and mortality as well, we aimed to test whether depressive...

...F. Anagnostopoulos; Gr. Vaslamatzis; M. Markidis; Kl. Katsouyanni; St. Vassilaros; C. Stefanis Two measures of personality characteristics, the Personality Deviance Scale and the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, were administered to a total sample of 448 women and a subsample of 100 women, respectively...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Alexithymia Depression Emotion Personality Affect 18 2 2010 Regular...

...Lee S. Mann; Thomas N. Wise; Laurel Shay The Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS) offers a reliable method to measure alexithymia, a personality construct describing individuals endorsing the inability to identify and report emotions, possessing a minimal fantasy life, utilizing an analytic cognitive...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Alexithymia Emotions Personality Rating scales Original Paper Psychother Psychosom 1992;57:34-41 Graeme J. Taylor...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Alexithymia Hemodialysis Kidney disease Peritoneal dialysis Personality Transcultural psychology Original Paper Psychother Psychosom 1992;57:75-80 Isao Fukunishia...

...-Sifneos Personality Scale, and the Basic Personality Inventory, which measures 12 basic dimensions of personality and psychopathology. CLEMs were recorded while subjects were asked 20 general knowledge questions that have no tendency to elicit eye movements predominantly in one direction. A series...

...Paul C. Horton; Herbert Gewirtz; Karole J. Kreutter Alexithymia is conceptualized as both affect-deficit disorder and continuous personality variable. Two-hundred-sixty-four adolescents were surveyed using (1) a core symptom questionnaire for alexithymic state; (2) the Toronto Alexithymia Scale...

... etiological models have been developed: the structural model emphasizes the role played by malocclusion or alterations of the maxillomandibular relationship, while the functional model underscores the role of stress, emotional tension, and personality characteristics. In TMJPD and bruxist patients a careful...

... then utilize the various perspectives found in psychiatry to emphasize that the medical model of disease states which concur with the meaningful elements of patient’s life narratives, their personality style and possible motivated behaviors fully illuminates psychosomatic illness. 18 2 2010 © 1993...

... that there are two main categories of glossodynia, one with a detectable organic etiology and another with a psychologic origin. The purpose of this study was to provide further information concerning the personality characteristics and the incidence of psychopathology in patients suffering from glossodynia without...

... factors (first pregnancy, first delivery, and past history of abortion); (2) early experience (loss of father); (3) personality (high neuroticism score); (4) attitudes towards the present pregnancy (perplexity of the husband); (5) accomodation factors (non-detached housing, and expected crowdedness after...

... or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Alexithymia Personality Emotion...

...Massimo Biondi; Luca-Gionata Zannino This article reviews research on the role of psychological stress, personality, social support and other psychosocial factors in bacterial, viral and parasitic infections. After 100 years of research on man and animals, psychological stress is considered...

...) and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) were administered. Results: The DCA had relatively high sensitivity and specificity, indicating adequate discriminant validity. The discriminant validity of the DCA was also supported by significant associations of the DCA with the TAS-26 and MMPI-2...

... lower rates of a number of lymphocyte subsets than non-alexithymic women. Conclusions: This study fully confirms the results of our previous work and those of a number of other studies: (1) personality might be one of the factors jointly responsible for the outbreak of cancer; (2) the immune system...

...Alvise Orlandini; Matteo Rocco Pastore; Andrea Fossati; Stefano Clerici; Alessandro Sergi; Annalisa Balini; Cesare Maffei; Antonio Secchi; Guido Pozza Background: In the present study the authors evaluated the relationship between personality traits (according to DSM-III-R) and poor metabolic...