ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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Although military deployment has been suggested as a possible cause of increases in domestic violence, little is known about it. The purpose of this study was to determine if deployment of 6 months to Bosnia predicted early postdeployment domestic violence. Active duty recently deployed (N= 313) and nondeployed (N= 712) male soldiers volunteered to take an anonymous questionnaire. Deployment was not a significant predictor of postdeployment domestic violence. However, younger soldiers, those with predeployment domestic violence, nonwhite race, and off-post residence also were more likely to report postdeployment domestic violence. The predicted probability of postdeployment domestic violence for a deployed 20-year-old, nonwhite soldier with a history of predeployment domestic violence and who lives on-post was .20. For the soldier without a history of predeployment domestic violence, it was .05. Prevention and intervention programs for postdeployment domestic violence shortly after return should target age and persons with a domestic violence history rather than deployment per se.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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This article compares the differences in HIV prevalence and risk behaviors in singly diagnosed patients with substance abuse problems and dually diagnosed patients with comorbid psychiatric and substance abuse problems. The National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (NTIES) was used to conduct a cross-sectional study on 6593 persons treated for substance abuse disorders. Logistic regression using hierarchal linear modeling (HLM) was utilized to compare risk behaviors of singly and dually diagnosed persons. Compared with singly diagnosed patients, dually diagnosed patients were more likely to share a needle, have sex for money or gifts, have sex with an intravenous drug user, and report being raped. Patients dually diagnosed with psychiatric and substance abuse disorders are an especially high-risk group for HIV infection, in part due to a higher likelihood of engaging in high-risk behavior, and should be targeted for more intense HIV interventions.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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The purpose of this study was to further examine the psychometric properties of the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES). A sample of normal adolescents (N= 331) aged 12 to 18 years completed the A-DES and questionnaires measuring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, other anxiety disorder symptoms, and fantasy proneness. Factor analysis indicated that the A-DES, at least in nonreferred youths, is assessing a single dimension of dissociation. Furthermore, A-DES scores are not only significantly related to PTSD symptoms but also to other anxiety disorder symptoms (i.e., generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder) and fantasy proneness. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are briefly discussed.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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The phenomenon of celebrity worship is currently conceptualized as an abnormal type of parasocial relationship, driven by absorption and addictive elements and which potentially has significant clinical sequelae. The authors hypothesize that the three increasingly extreme sets of attitudes and behaviors associated with celebrity worship also partly reflect the three domains of personality discussed in Eysenckian theory. Specifically, celebrity worship for entertainment-social reasons may reflect extraversion personality traits; intense-personal attitudes and behaviors toward celebrities may reflect neuroticism traits; and celebrity worship of a borderline-pathological nature may reflect psychoticism traits. To test this idea, the authors administered the Celebrity Attitude Scale and the Abbreviated Form of the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire to large convenience samples of students (N= 317) and community (N= 290) respondents. Results indicate that celebrity worship is not an uncommon phenomenon. Further, correlational analyses supported predictions and suggest that Eysenckian domains of personality may promote or hinder a person’s progression along the continuum of behaviors associated with celebrity worship.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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The associations between personality disorders and adult attachment dimensions were assessed in a sample of 487 consecutively admitted psychiatric subjects. Canonical correlation analysis showed that two sets of moderately correlated canonical variates explained the correlations between personality disorders and adult attachment patterns. The first and second attachment variates closely resembled the avoidance and anxiety attachment dimensions, respectively. The first personality disorder variate was mainly characterized by avoidant, depressive, paranoid, and schizotypal personality disorders, whereas dependent, histrionic, and borderline personality disorders loaded on the second canonical variate. However, these linear combinations of personality disorders were different from those obtained from principal component analysis. The results extend previous studies linking personality disorders and attachment patterns and suggest the importance of focusing on specific constellations of symptoms associated with dimensions of insecurity.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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It has been alternately theorized that poor insight in patients with schizophrenia results from deficits in executive function and a preference for denial as a coping strategy. One possibility is there are two distinct groups of persons with poor insight: those with impairments in executive function and those with a generally avoidant coping style. To examine this question, the authors performed a cluster analysis on 64 persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders on the basis of the PANSS insight and judgment item and executive function assessed with the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. As predicted, three groups were found: good insight-average executive function (N= 28), poor insight-average executive function (N= 13), and poor insight-poor executive function (N= 23). When self-reported coping styles were compared among groups, as predicted, the poor insight-average executive function group endorsed a significantly greater preference for denial as a coping strategy than the poor insight-poor executive function group, even after controlling for differences in executive function. The coping scores of the good insight group did not differ significantly from either poor insight group. Results suggest that denial may play a role in the unawareness of illness in some persons with schizophrenia who have average executive function.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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A recent body of literature on the subjective experience of severe mental illness has reported on the importance of a person’s self-esteem. Using a longitudinal design, this study investigates the relationship between self-esteem and functioning during the first year after being hospitalized for psychosis. The findings are based on comprehensive assessments conducted over a 1-year period with 43 persons hospitalized for schizophrenia and related disorders. Results reveal that change in level of self-esteem is significantly related to outcome. These results emphasize the importance of helping patients sustain positive self-esteem in the midst of disorder and treatment.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

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Controversy surrounds the origin of symptoms attributed to environmental pollutants or widely used chemicals, and the authors believed that a psychiatric evaluation could advance understanding of this contentious condition. They assessed psychiatric morbidity, somatization, and self-attentiveness in patients seen in their Environmental Clinic. Two hundred ninety-five consecutive patients underwent SCID-I and -II interviews and were investigated with self-rating scales for self-attentiveness and somatization. The authors found a high prevalence of mental disorders (66% had a current SCID diagnosis, and 75% had a lifetime SCID diagnosis) and a low level of self-attentiveness, which was not necessarily associated with psychiatric disease. Among patients visiting an Environmental Clinic, mental disorders were common and needed to be diagnosed and treated by standard interventions. Patients who did not meet diagnostic criteria for a psychiatric disorder had relatively low somatization scores and low private self-attentiveness. These “externalizers” could benefit from an intervention that teaches them to focus on their internal and emotional lives. In these patients, the authors consider low self-attentiveness a major feature that may act as a pathogenic factor for environmental illness.

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0022-3018    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID