Showing 10 results for Personality
S Hamzeh, M Beirami, T Hashemi Nosratabadi,
Volume 19, Issue 5 (12-2011)
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Introduction: Considering the importance of cancer as one of the main causes of mortality in the world and the role of various factors, including psychological ones in its onset. In this study we compared some of these factors such as personality traits, negative experienced emotions and coping styles in healthy women and those with cancer.
Methods: In this study, 83 women with cancer(referred to Imam Khomeini hospital of Tehran in a one- month period) and 85 healthy subjects(selected by using available sampling method and matched with the first group). Then Personality inventory of Eysenck and inventory type D(DS14) and Folkman and Lazarus coping styles on were studied in both groups. Data analysis was performed by T Hoteling test and multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA).
Results: Two groups of women(cancer- healthy) were significantly different for personality trait of extraversion, negative emotion experiences and emotional-oriented coping and problem-oriented coping.
Conclusion: Women with cancer compared to healthy women experienced more negative emotions and had lower score in extraversion and used more emotion-oriented coping styles and less problem-oriented styles
M Afkhami Ardekani , H Zare, A Alipor, H Poursharifi, Kh Arab Sheibani ,
Volume 20, Issue 6 (3-2013)
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Introduction: Glycemic control in type 2 diabetic patients seems to be affected by personality as well as psychological factors. Therefore, this study intends to investigate the relationship between self efficacy, type D personality and health locus of control with control of blood sugar in patients with diabetes type 2.
Methods: All women with diabetes in Yazd Diabetes Research Centre were considered among which 80 were selected by random sampling. They completed Shirer’s self-efficacy scale questionnaire, type D personality questionnaire and Multiple health locus of control questionnaire. Then they were introduced to the lab for blood test. Data was analysed by SPSS software and stepwise regression method.
Results: The results of Pearson correlation coefficients showed that self efficacy (r = 0/83) and type D personality (r=0/55) and health locus of control with HbA1c correlated positively and significantly (p <0/05). Stepwise regression analysis showed that R2=0/73 In other words, 73% changes of the variable HbA1is determined by self-efficacy, type D personality and health locus of internal control variables
Conclusion: Impact of personality and psychological variables in diabetes glycemic control is important. So we can implement interventions to increase the efficacy of internal control sites and modify the features of type D personality in patients with diabetes and thus to improve glycemic control and adherence to treatment regimens in these patients.
B Peymannia, E Moosavi,
Volume 22, Issue 2 (6-2014)
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Introduction: Migraine is a common familial disease and is diagnosed with recurring throbbing headache. Investigation of biological and psychological factors in the initiation and aggravation of migraine headaches have shown that there is a relationship between the psychological factors, personality, and migraine headache. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the conceived stress and Personality traits between ill persons suffering from Migraine and healthy people.
Methods: This is an analytical cross-sectional study which involves a sample including 30 migrainours and 30 healthy people. The migraine-suffering participants were chosen among the people who referred to specialized clinic of migraine in Ardabil in the first half of 2012. The study participants filled the Eysenck's personality questionnaire and Kohen' s Perceived stress scale. Descriptive statistics as well as MANOVA were utilized to analyze the research data.
Results: The results showed that migraine-suffering participants conceived the stress negatively (P<0.01, F=11) compared to healthy participants. Moreover, migrainours scored significantly higher in regard to Neuroticism score compared to healthy people (P<0.05, F=5.91). Also, there was a significant difference between migrainours and healthy people in their extroversion score (P<0.05, F=6.57).
Conclusion: According to the study findings, it appears that migraine patients are more vulnerable to the neurotic disease. Therefore, considering the psychological and personality characteristics may impact on the prognosis of disease.
R Rahimi, M Arefi, M Golmohammadian,
Volume 23, Issue 10 (1-2016)
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Introduction: Heart disease is a psycho-physiological disorder that in addition to physical and biological factors, psychological factors such as stressful events, personality traits and coping strategies play an important role in its occurrence and exacerbation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate personality dimensions and stress-coping strategies within healthy individuals compared with heart patients.
Methods: In this analytical-comparative study, 50 patients with heart disease(26 males and 24 females) and 50 healthy subjects (28 males and 22 females) were selected. The participants were required to respond to the Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ-R) and Folkman and Lazarus’s stress-coping strategies questionnaire. In order to analyze the studydata, descriptive indicators and independent t-test were applied using SPSS software(ver, 19) and the significance level was set at α= 0/01.
Findings: The study results revealed a significant defference between heart patients and healthy individuals in terms of personality dimensions, neuroticism, and psychoticism, though no significant difference was observed in regard with emotion-focused coping strategies between the two groups. In the present study, the effect of gender was also examined on personality dimensions and coping strategies. Moreover, extraversion features as well as emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies were demonstrated to differ significantly between males and females.
Conclusion: The study findings indicated that heart patients seem to be more anxious, fearful, violent, aggressive and fast developing for anxiety, depression and aggression compared to healthy individuals who apply emotion-oriented coping style dealing with the problems.
Sohrab Amiri , Mahsa Ghasemi Gheshlagh , Zahra Abbas Zadeh,
Volume 26, Issue 1 (4-2018)
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Introdution: Emotions and personality traits are the most important factors in medical problems caused by psychological factors. The purpose of the present study was to determine ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, alexithymia and personality traits in the patients with stomach ulcers and normal.
Methods: The method was descriptive-ex post facto and the study population included individuals with ilness in Urmia City and normal individuals. 60 individuals were selected through available sampling and matched with 60 normal individuals by using informed consent. In order to collect research data, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness questionnaire, alexithymia and personality traits questionnaires were distributed among the participants and data were analyzed using SPSS-22 software and descriptive indicators and multivariate and univariate analysis of variance.
Results: The results showed that emotional ambivalence and alexithymia in individuals with illness were different from the normal individuals. The individuals with stomach ulcers compared with normal individuals had experienced high levels of emotional expressiveness and alexithymia.
Conclusion: It seems inappropriate emotional levels can provide predisposing conditions for psychosomatic disorders and disease itself make them more susceptible to psychological damage. Therefore, interventions are required, in the order to reduce the risk of psychological damage and appropriate emotion regulation education.
Javad Khalatbari, Vahid Hemmati Sabet, Farinaz Tabibzadeh, Akbar Hemmati Sabet,
Volume 27, Issue 6 (10-2019)
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Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being in people with irritable bowel syndrome with mediating role of emotional regulation.
Methods: Research method according to the applied purpose, and the data collection method was a descriptive correlation and a quantitative data type. The statistical population of this study was all the patients with irritable bowel syndrome referring to Danesh Gastrointestinal Clinic in Tehran in 1396. The sample size was 390 participants selected by calculate sample size in structural equations and using a sample purposive sampling method. In order to measure the variables, personality traits Neo Costa & McGary (1992), Psychological well-being Ryff (1989), and of emotional regulation Gross and John (2003) questionnaires were used. Evaluation of the proposed model was done using structural equation modeling and SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL; Version 18 as well as Amos. The reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity of the questionnaire, were investigated. Moreover, path coefficients and software significance coefficients were used to examine the research hypotheses.
Results: The results showed that the degree of appropriateness of the proposed model was appropriate to the components of the research; personality traits and psychological well-being were found to be correlated with the role of mediator of emotional regulation in the patients with irritable bowel syndrome (p <0.0001).
Conclusion: This research confirms the relationship between personality traits and psychological well-being with the mediating role of emotional regulation in people with irritable bowel syndrome. Because of Numerous scientific evidence in the ontology of this syndrome, further study on emotional skills and related problems in people with irritable bowel syndrome are required.
Zahra Eslamirad,
Volume 27, Issue 8 (12-2019)
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Introduction: This note addresses the scientific study of behavioral changes caused by Toxoplasma. About a third of the world's population is infected with the chronic form of the parasite, which is usually asymptomatic and causes severe symptoms only in the presence of the parasite in the eye and nervous system. The study of behavioral changes caused by this parasite has begun since the 1980s and continues to this day. According to the results of these studies, infected men and women exhibit behavioral and personality changes. The mechanism of these changes is still unclear, but there are hypotheses about it that are under evaluation.
Hanie Elahimehr, Mahnaz Shahgholian, Mohammad Hossein Abdollahi, Fariba Rajabi,
Volume 29, Issue 8 (11-2021)
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Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is one of the causes of mortality in the world, which psychological factors play an important role in its occurrence and exacerbation. This study aimed to investigate the prediction of emotional repression based on alexithymia and type D personality in cardiovascular patients.
Methods: Participants were 100 patients with coronary artery disease selected through accidental sampling from the patients undergoing treatment at Rajaee Heart Hospital in Karaj City and completed TAS-20, DS14 and ECQ questionnaires. The validity and reliability of all three questionnaires have been confirmed in domestic and foreign studies. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 16 Software and Pearson correlation, Multiple regressions.
Results: The correlation results showed that there was a significant relationship between alexithymia and personality type D with emotional repression in the cardiac patients at the level of 0.05, and the results of multivariate regression results showed that alexityymia and personality type D did not predict emotional repression.
Conclusion: Alexithymia, personality type D, and emotional repression are risk factors for the development and exacerbation of cardiovascular disease.
Hossein Shekari, Nima Ghorbani, Reza Rostami, Jon Frederickson, Maryam Abbasi, Asie Eftekhari,
Volume 31, Issue 3 (6-2023)
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Introduction: The problem of addiction potential experienced by young adults is usually accompanied by narcissistic personality traits. Research has confirmed two distinct forms of narcissism: grandiose and vulnerable. Meanwhile, shame as the main emotion and attachment style plays an essential role in these disorders. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of reviewing research on addiction potential and the role of narcissistic factors, shame experiences, and attachment patterns. Using the Google Scholar database, key words such as Addiction Potential, Narcissism, Shame and Attachment Style were searched. PubMed was searched for Addiction, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, shame, and Attachment Styles. All time periods were used for this review and more than two hundred documents were reviewed and extracted based on the criteria.
Conclusion: The results showed that in some studies, a significant relationship was observed among potential for addiction, narcissism, shame experiences, and attachment patterns; in some other studies, potential for addiction was predictable through narcissism, shame experiences, and attachment patterns.
In general, we can conclude that addiction is a big problem that is affecting many societies today, by identifying how these factors are formed in children and development paths affecting it, a big step can be taken in the direction of educating parents and communities.
Meysam Farezi, Morteza Eshaghi, Nasrin Panbezan, Vahideh Mansouri, Nafiseh Rostami, Samad Darabian,
Volume 32, Issue 5 (8-2024)
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Introduction: Personality traits are the basis of stable patterns and emotional and behavioral functioning that affect the risk of contracting chronic diseases and people's ways of understanding health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the personality traits between cardiovascular patients and the individuals with a history of drug abuse.
Methods: The present study was an analytical cross-sectional study on 301 individuals (115 control group, 86 cardiovascular patients and 100 individuals with a history of drug addiction) in the form of convenience and available sampling in Karaj City in 2023. The data were collected using the ZKA personality questionnaire. After collecting the data, they were entered into SPSS version16 software. Independent t-tests, one-way analysis of variance were used for data analysis.
Results: In the present study, the mean and standard deviation of the total age of the participants was 41.37±14.76. The participation consisted of 179 (59.4%) men and 122 (39.6%) women. In SS1, EX2, AC4, AG2, NE4, SS4, and EX3 aspects, statistically significant differences were observed between the groups of cardiovascular and the control. In the aspects of AC4, AG2, NE4, EX2, NE2, SS4 and NE and SS factors, a significant difference was observed between the individuals with a history of addiction and the control group.
Conclusion: Considering the relationship between personality traits and heart diseases and substance abuse, it is recommended that the results of this study be considered for prevention and appropriate intervention by doctors and health professionals, and these results can also be used to develop treatment programs.
