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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"personality structure"”.
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Patterns, maintenance and the evolution of behavioral variation and covariance: the presence of personalities in kangaroo rats
… to demonstrate that D. merriami exhibits personality structure between behaviors measured in the laboratory. I evaluated the mechanisms that may maintain variation between and within populations of D. merriami and demonstrated that D. merriami exhibit behavioral covariance in natural …
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INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF DAILY PERSONALITY IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
… investigates whether daily changes in a person’s personality are associated with daily changes in a person’s Borderline Personality Disorder (borderline) symptoms. A large body of literature has suggested an association between Five-factor model (FFM) personality and borderline symptoms, and some …
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A Comparative Study of Selected Personality Characteristics of Students Who Cheat and Do Not Cheat in an Academic Situation
… study was to determine if there were significant personality differences between students who cheat in a given academic situation and students who do not cheat in the same situation. This was examined in terms of manifest needs, personality structure, and certain attitudes and values relative to …
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The Contribution of Adverse Childhood Experiences to the Interplay Between Insecure Attachment Characteristics, Trait Emotional Intelligence, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation, and Personality Organization
… attachment experiences and subsequent personality pathology. Individuals with adverse attachment experiences and those with personality pathology have been found to have difficulty with emotional awareness and emotion regulation. Attachment characteristics inform emotional intelligence …
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Towards an object-relations understanding of the borderline personality
… Object-Relations understanding of the borderline personality. Towards that end theoretical issues related to the borderline concept were introduced and certain controversial aspects were briefly discussed. A review of the pertinent descriptive literature attempting to detail borderline …
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Adolf Eichmann: a Reappraisal
… psychohistorical analysis of Adolf Eichmann's personality and career is based upon Dr. Kulcsar's report and the opinions of other psychological experts who have evaluated Eichmann's psychological tests. I have also applied the theories of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm and several …
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"A fine balance" : a case study of love, hatred and sadomasochism
… and sadomasochism, underlying a borderline personality structure, acted as a powerful obstacle in her being able to love her daughter. Using the theoretical tenets of self psychology to understand the clinical presentation of both mother and daughter, it emerged that the fragmented …
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Paauglių su psichotine asmenybės sąranga savęs vaizdas /
… work „Self-image of adolescents with psychotic personality structure“ are adolescents with psychotic personality organization. They are very narrowly and little researched in Lithuania. The object of the work is the self-image of adolescents with psychotic personality organization. The …
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A nomination approach to the study of wisdom in old age
… and emotional development of wise people, their personality structure, life experiences, control beliefs and gender identity were tested by conducting structured interviews with 78 community dwelling men and women, aged 55 and over, who had been nominated for their wisdom by their peers. The …
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Serial murder : psychological themes
… emerged are: these persons display a dependent personality structure with underlying anxiety; these person come across as reasonably normal without indications of severe pathology; these persons have an incapacity to form meaningful relationships; and there is a possibility that these persons …
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Central Traits in the 21st Century
… obscure important individual differences in the structure, stability, and personal relevance of individuals’ dispositional tendencies. Inspired by Gordon Allport’s notion that people may be defined by distinctive ‘organizing foci’ of personality, this dissertation introduces the central trait …
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A Descriptive Study of the Personality, Attitudes, and Overseas Experience of Seventh-day Adventist College Students Who Served as Short-Term Volunteer Missionaries
… the purpose of the present study to describe the personality, attitudes, and overseas experience of a group of 150 Seventh-day Adventist college students who served as short-term volunteer missionaries (student missionaries) during the 1975-76 school year. Method The Sixteen Personality Factor …