Search results for "Trait"

<p>Memory performances and personality traits in mothers of children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome</p>

2019

Background Chronic diseases in pediatric age have been identified as stressful risk factors for parents. Studies on caregivers have documented the impact of chronic parenting stress on emotion and cognition. Aim To investigate the differences between a group of mothers of children affected by obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) for at least 4 years and a group of mothers of typically developing children (TDC) in relation to parental stress, self-esteem, locus of control, and memory performances. Methods A group of 86 mothers (mean age 35.6±4.9, ranged between 32 and 41 years) of children with OSAS diagnosis, and a group of 52 mothers of TDC (mean age 35.9±4.2, ranged between 32 and 41 y…

Organisational culture: pursuing a theoretical foundation within the Finnish public oral health-care context.

2004

At the moment, Finnish oral health care is undergoing many changes. Little attention has been paid to issues of organisational culture and communication in Finnish oral health care. Yet the question of culture is of primary importance for changes in an organisation and for planning and reconstructing the rational functioning of an organisation. The purpose of this paper is to examine Finnish public oral health care within a theoretical framework of organisational culture and to identify the various cultural traits that appear to characterise Finnish oral health care. Using a cultural point of view, we develop an orientation for understanding more profoundly and specifically the processes co…

An exploration of anger phenomenology in multiple sclerosis

2009

Background and purpose:  Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are often emotionally disturbed. We investigated anger in these patients in relation to demographic, clinical, and mood characteristics. Patients and methods:  About 195 cognitively unimpaired MS patients (150 relapsing–remitting and 45 progressive) were evaluated with the State Trait Anger Expression Inventory, the Chicago Multiscale Depression Inventory, and the State Trait Anxiety Inventory. The patients’ anger score distribution was compared with that of the normal Italian population. Correlation coefficients among scale scores were calculated and mean anger scores were compared across different groups of patients by analysis of …

2018

Adolescents with a strong tendency for irrational task delay (i.e., high trait procrastination) may be particularly prone to use Internet applications simultaneously to other tasks (e.g., during homework) and in an insufficiently controlled fashion. Both Internet multitasking and insufficiently controlled Internet usage may thus amplify the negative mental health implications that have frequently been associated with trait procrastination. The present study explored this role of Internet multitasking and insufficiently controlled Internet use for the relationship between trait procrastination and impaired psychological functioning in a community sample of N = 818 early and middle adolescent…

Cnoty jako dyspozycje psychiczne i ich wpływ na jakość życia współczesnego człowieka

2015

his paper explores the problem of virtue, understood as a mental disposition and its impact on the existence of human subject. The concepts of virtues developed by philosophers over the different eras are now the inspiration for psychology, mostly positive psychology. The aim of this analysis is to verify the hypothesis of a relationship between the possession of specific virtues and a sense of the quality of life. The research method is based on an analysis of the literature. The research material consists of the latest publications of leading psychologists, experts in the field of positive psychology, Polish and foreign, and an extensive literature in the field of philosophy. Based on the…

Temperament traits and preferences of music works with specific musical elements

2017

Celem badania było sprawdzenie związków pomiędzy cechami temperamentu wyodrębnionymi przez Pawłowa a preferencjami utworów składających się z określonych elementów muzycznych. W badaniu wzięło udział 145 studentów, w wieku 19-26 lat. W celu określenia cech temperamentu badani wypełnili Kwestionariusz Temperamentu PTS. W celu określenia preferowanego utworu badani wypełnili Kwestionariusz Preferencji Muzycznych. Analiza statystyczna wykazała, że wszystkie cechy temperamentu wyodrębnione przez Pawłowa wykazują związek z określonymi elementami zawartymi w utworach muzycznych preferowanych przez badanych. Elementy, które okazały się istotne w badaniu to: tempo, zmiany tempa, wartości rytmiczne …

Adult Lactose Tolerance Is Not an Advantageous Evolutionary Trait

2004

To the Editor. I read with great interest the recent article from Fomon1 in which he refers to the well-known hypothesis that views the variable frequencies of lactase persistence in different human populations and, consequently, the possibility for some adults to feed on milk (lactose tolerance) as an advantageous evolutionary trait that has been genetically determined and brought about through centuries of natural selection. This notion stands as a common statement in current medical literature, and most authors have accepted its validity since the 1970s.2,3 Because adult mammals are lactose-intolerant, this hypothesis is, moreover, based on the low percentage of lactose malabsorption and…

Influence de l'atmosphère gazeuse sur la cinétique de formation du titanate de baryum par réaction solide-solide

1986

International audience; Les études consacrées à la synthèse, par réaction solide-solide, du titanate de baryum (BaTiO3) ont montré l'importance des propriétés physicochimiques des solides initiaux (BaCO3 et TiO2) sur les propriétés du titanate obtenu. Lors de l'élaboration de céramiques diélectriques, il est en effet nécessaire d'éviter la formation de phases intermédiaires (Ba2TiO4, BaTi4O9, ...) qui nuisent à leurs propriétés diélectriques. La présence de ces phases peut être liée à une maîtrise imparfaite des nombreux paramètres influant sur la cinétique de la réaction. Le rôle de deux de ces paramètres : les traitements mécaniques et la nature de l'atmosphère gazeuse, fait l'objet de ce…

Determination of fatty acids and lipid classes in salmon oil by near infrared spectroscopy

2017

International audience; Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was evaluated as a rapid method for the determination of oleic, palmitic, linoleic and linolenic acids as well as omega-3, omega-6, and to predict polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids, together with triacylglycerides, diglycerides, free fatty acids and ergosterol in salmon oil. To do it, Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression models were applied to correlate NIR spectra with aforementioned fatty acids and lipid classes. Results obtained were validated in front of reference procedures based on high performance thin layer and gas chromatography. PLS-NIR has a good predictive capability with relative root mean squar…

Characterization and enhancement of resilience to the effects of social stress on the rewarding properties of cocaine in male mice

2022

El principal foco de interés en la presente Tesis Doctoral es estudiar la resiliencia a desarrollar un trastorno por consumo de cocaína tras la exposición a estrés. Para ello utilizamos modelos animales de estrés social (la derrota social repetida intermitente, DSRI) y de efectos reforzantes de las drogas (el paradigma de Condicionamiento de Preferencia de Lugar, CPL), ya que en estudios previos hemos demostrado que la exposición a DSRI incrementa los efectos reforzantes de la cocaína en el CPL (García-Pardo y cols., 2019; Calpe-López y cols., 2020). Nuestro objetivo es identificar a los animales resilientes a este efecto de la DSRI, caracterizar su comportamiento tras el estrés, estudiar s…