Personality Traits : Theory, Testing and Influences.

Intro -- PERSONALITY TRAITS: THEORY, TESTING AND INFLUENCES -- PERSONALITY TRAITS: THEORY, TESTING AND INFLUENCES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 ADDICTION: FRONTAL PERSONALITY CHANGE BUT NOT PERSONALITY DISORDER COMORBIDITY IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT OF ADDICTIVE DISORDERS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Stability vs. Personality Change -- Stability of Personality Disorders in Samples of Addicts -- Factors Affecting the Stability of the Diagnosis: Stress -- Factors Affecting the Stability of the Diagnosis: Impulsivity -- Factors Affecting the Stability of the Diagnosis: Personality Change -- Neuroscientific Perspective of Addiction -- Neuroscientific Perspective of Personality -- Neuroscientific Perspective of Personality Disorders -- A Key Difference: Recovery -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND PERSONALITY: A MINIREVIEW -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND EYSENCK'S PERSONALITY MODEL -- CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL -- CIRCADIAN PREFERENCE AND CLONINGER'S PERSONALITY MODEL -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 THE IMAGINARY COMPANION EXPERIENCE IN ADULTS: ASSET, DISORDER OR PERSONALITY FEATURE? -- ABSTRACT -- DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IMAGINARY COMPANION -- Overlap between ICs and Dissociative Disorders -- Mediating Variables between ICs and Dissociative Disorders -- Overlap between ICs and Other Clinical Disorders -- Cases Only Involving ICs -- Overlap between ICs and Personality Disorders -- Lack of Guidelines on How to Diagnose the IC's Influence or Effect -- Overly Simplistic Alternatives -- The Fantasy Prone Personality -- A Functional Method of Regarding ICs -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 4 SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY TRAITS: AUDITORY HALLUCINATION-LIKE EXPERIENCES AND ATYPICAL HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Participants -- Apparatus -- Materials -- Procedure -- Questionnaire -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 GENETICS OF PERSONALITITY DISORDERS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ABOUT PERSONALITY AND ITS DISORDERS -- 3. PERSONALITY DISORDER AND GENETICS -- 3.1. Personality Disorders Cluster A and Genetic Studies -- 3.2. Heritability -- 3.3. Neuropsychological Markers -- 3.4 Studies of Molecular Genetics -- 4. CLUSTER B PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND GENETIC STUDIES -- C.3.2.1. Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Heritability -- Studies of Molecular Genetics -- 5. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER -- Heritability of Impulsivity -- 6. PERSONALITY DISORDERS CLUSTER C AND GENETIC STUDIES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING STUDIES OF THE ANXIETY-RELATED PERSONALITY TRAIT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASIS OF HUMAN ANXIOUS PERSONALITY -- 1. ANXIETY-RELATED PERSONALITY TRAITS: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, REPRESENTATIVE THEORETICAL MODELS, AND HYPOTHESES FOR THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS -- 2. STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING STUDIES OF THE ANXIETY-RELATED PERSONALITY TRAIT -- Amygdala -- Ventral Part of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) -- Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (vmPFC) Encompassing the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex (mOFC) -- Hippocampal Regions -- 3. SUMMARY: IMPLICATIONS OF THE POSSIBLE NEUROBIOLOGICAL BASIS OF AN ANXIETY-RELATED PERSONALITY TRAIT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?: OPTIMISTIC OR PESSIMISTIC PERSONALITY TRAITS -- THE BENEFICIAL ROLE OF OPTIMISM IN HEALTH OUTCOMES -- IS THERE SUCH A THING AS TOO MUCH OPTIMISM AND NOT ENOUGH PESSIMISM? -- Culture -- Achieving Balance -- REFERENCES.

Chapter 8 ILLNESS RECOGNITION AND BELIEFS ABOUT TREATMENT FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA IN A COMMUNITY SAMPLE OF MEXICO CITY: DIFFERENCES ACCORDING TO PERSONALITY TRAITS -- ABSTRACT -- Objective -- Method -- Results -- Conclusions -- INTRODUCTION -- METHOD -- Subjects -- Assessment Procedures -- Statistical Analyses -- RESULTS -- A) Personality Differences According to Illness Recognition -- B) Beliefs about Adequate Treatment for Symptoms -- C) Personality and Beliefs of Adequate Treatment for Symptoms of Schizophrenia -- DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 IS DEVELOPMENTALLY INFORMED THERAPY FOR PERSONS WITH ID AND CRIMINAL PERSONALITY/OFFENSES RELEVANT? -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 PERSONALITY TRAITS: REFLECTIONS IN THE BRAIN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PERSONALITY: TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER -- WHAT GENETICS BRINGS -- WHAT IMAGING SHOWS -- TEMPERAMENT DIMENSIONS AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS -- CHARACTER DIMENSIONS AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 THE CAREGIVERS OF PERSONS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: THE IMPACT OF PERSONALITY TRAITS ON OWN STRESS PERCEPTION AND IN EVALUATING COGNITIVE AND FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT OF THEIR RELATIVES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- The Disease Awareness -- The Caregiving Process -- The Caregiver Burden -- Personality Traits of Caregivers -- OBJECTIVES -- METHOD -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Commentary HOW "TO BE OR NOT TO BE": THE ANSWER IS IN IDENTITY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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