Dantzker, M. L. Freeberg, Diamantina
Published in
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
For many years, potential police recruits have had to undergo a variety of pre-employment tests. The testing process includes physical and psychological procedures. In more recent years the psychological testing has received more scrutiny with some states requiring the conducting of more than one procedure. Of particular popularity among psychologi...
Hadjistavropoulos, Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos, Thomas
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Current Pain and Headache Reports
Health anxiety is a dimensional construct that is characterized by extreme concern about one’s health at one end of the continuum and lack of concern about health on the other. Research evidence is consistent with the notion that high levels of health anxiety among patients with pain represent a poor prognostic indicator. Moreover, the experience o...
Egger, Jos De Mey, Hubert Derksen, Jan Van Der Staak, Cees
Published in
Current Psychology
The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II and MCMI-III) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) were applied to 263 Dutch inpatient substance abusers with multiple psychiatric diagnoses, and the results compared with those of 306 North-American substance abusers studied by Ward (1995). We looked for structural similarit...
Kasai, Yuichi Takegami, Kenji Uchida, Atsumasa
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International Orthopaedics
We administered the Maudsley Personality Inventory (MPI) preoperatively to 303 patients with spinal diseases about to undergo surgery. Patients younger than 20 years, patients previously treated in the Department of Psychiatry, and patients with poor postoperative results were excluded. Patients with N-scores (neuroticism scale) of 39 points or gre...
DeCoster-Martin, Emily Weiss, William U. Davis, Robert D. Rostow, Cary D.
Published in
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
As a general rule, pathologies tend to impair job performance. In a study involving performance criteria and the Personality Assessment Inventory in a sample of Louisiana police officers (N=800), OCD characteristics correlated significantly in a negative direction with several performance criteria, such as involvement in an on-duty or off-duty at f...
Torgersen, Svenn
Published in
Current Psychiatry Reports
Behavioral genetic personality research has moved from findings of genetic and environmental effects to new areas. Personality disorders have been included, children and adolescents studied, gender effects evaluated, and the importance of rater sources investigated. Recently, multivariate methods have been applied to disentangle the genetic and env...
Rocca, Walter A. Grossardt, Brandon R. Peterson, Brett J. Bower, James H. Trenerry, Max R. Ahlskog, J. Eric Sanft, Kevin R. de Andrade, Mariza Maraganore, Demetrius M.
Published in
Neuroepidemiology
We established a historical cohort of 7,216 subjects who completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) at the Mayo Clinic from 1962 through 1965 for research (not clinical indication), and who resided within a 120-mile radius centered in Rochester, Minnesota. We describe here the overall cohort design and sampling, we report resu...
Kubzansky, Laura D. Cole, Stephen R. Kawachi, Ichiro Vokonas, Pantel Sparrow, David
Published in
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Background: Anger, anxiety, and depression have each been identified as risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD). Whether the apparent risk is a function of unique aspects of each emotion or due to a shared underlying dimension of negative affectivity is unclear.Purpose: The goal of this study was to assess shared and unique contributions of a...
Olden, Kevin W. Brown, Andrew R.
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Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology
Determining which patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are “refractory” is highly subjective. The duration, severity, and type of symptoms and a host of other epidemiologic and psychosocial factors play a role in this determination. Long duration of symptoms alone does not portray the severe IBS patient. Several studies have shown that pati...
Super, John T.
Published in
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Current tests and procedures commonly employed in criminal justice system pre-employment psychological screenings in the southeastern United States were surveyed. Twenty complete data sets were obtained at the 2005 annual meeting of the Consortium of Police Psychologists. Survey respondents provide pre-employment psychological evaluations for 478 f...
