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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"maladaptive personality"”.
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Maladaptive Personality Traits and Sex Addiction Profiles
<p>How do pathological personality traits relate to specific expressions of compulsive sexual behaviors? Previous studies have concluded that there are only small relationships between these two constructs, but such studies have usually conceptualized sexual compulsion as a unidimensional …
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Humor Types: Replication Using Latent Profile Analysis and Associations with Maladaptive Personality Traits
… may affect the relationship between humor and personality. The present study examined relationships of the humor styles, both individually and in combination, with a broad array of maladaptive personality traits. The incremental validity of accounting for the combinations with which the humor …
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Development of an Integrated Adaptive and Maladaptive Personality Model for Measuring the Big Five
The structure of the Big Five model of personality was examined when its dimensions were measured independently at both poles, based on new items designed to reduce the social desirability bias often found between the polarities. Inductive, deductive and criterion-centric methods were employed and …
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The Relative and Incremental Validity of the Big Five and Maladaptive Personality Characteristics for Predicting Leadership Effectiveness
Although previous research has examined "bright" personality characteristics that impact leadership effectiveness through their presence, there is a growing recognition of the importance of factors that promote leadership effectiveness through their absence (e.g., Hogan & Hogan, 2001; McCall & …
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Associations Between Maternal Reflective Functioning and Adolescent Personality Pathology
… onset for psychiatric disorders, particularly personality disorder (PD). During adolescence, the parent-child relationship remains crucial for optimal adolescent development. Research suggests that maternal reflective functioning (RF) may play an important role in buffering against the …
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Shame, guilt, and denial in offenders
… and included measures of self-esteem and maladaptive personality traits. It was predicted that self-esteem would negatively correlate with chronic distress and responsibility, and have a non-significant relationship with offence-denial. It was also predicted that maladaptive personality …
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Reconceptualizing Social Impairment Using Informant Report
… in self report). Additionally, individuals with personality pathology seem likely to underreport impairment, either due to a lack of insight or because of the manifestations of impairment assessed. The current project aimed to demonstrate the concurrent validity of a newly-developed, …
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Understanding aggression motivation: the role of developmental, affect and socio-cognitive factors in offenders
… explored the role of developmental, affect, personality and socio-cognitive factors in aggression, investigating how these factors contributed to motives and inhibitors. This addressed several gaps in our knowledge and understanding of these factors among prisoners. In doing so, it …