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Cognitive functioning, clinical profile and life events in young adults addicted to drugs. Does being a girl make a difference? [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: Gender features play a fundamental role as risk factors in drug addiction, entailing differences in vulnerability, onset, drug use and clinical trajectories.
Alessandra Simonelli +5 more
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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Khyber Medical University JournalObjective: To develop and validate an indigenous Urdu scale for measuring Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD) in adults, based on the diagnostic criteria outlined in DSM-5, and to assess its psychometric properties.
Samia Rashid, Zaqia Bano
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Quantifying Construct Validity: Two Simple Measures [PDF]
, 2010 Construct validity is one of the most central concepts in psychology. Researchers generally establish the construct validity of a measure by correlating it with a number of other measures and arguing from the pattern of correlations that the measure is ...
Rosenthal, Robert, Westen, Drew
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Prevalence and correlates of psychopathic traits in the household population of Great Britain [PDF]
, 2000 There are no previous surveys of psychopathy and psychopathic traits in representative general population samples using standardized instruments. This study aimed to measure prevalence and correlates of psychopathic traits, based on a two-phase survey ...
Coid, Jeremy W. +4 more
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PTSD from Childhood Trauma as a Precursor to Attachment Issues [PDF]
, 2016 The past 20 years have been turbulent regarding Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD), with conflicting research about its causes, effects, treatment, and prognosis. The current diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 fails to adequately address this disorder.
Owen, Christy
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Using the mood disorder questionnaire and bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale to detect bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder among eating disorder patients [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Screening scales for bipolar disorder including the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) have been plagued by high false positive rates confounded by presence of borderline personality disorder.
Alan R Teo +5 more
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IN PURSUIT OF THE HOFFMANNESQUE
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article seeks to elucidate the term ‘Hoffmannesque’ — the eponymous adjective that refers to E. T. A. Hoffmann — through recourse to Hoffmann's own use of ‘esque’ words: arabesque, grotesque, burlesque, picturesque. By investigating the characteristics of ‘esque’ formulations and tracing their recurrence through Hoffmann's texts, I argue ...
Polly Dickson
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Anderson-Fabry, the histrionic disease: from genetics to clinical management
Cardiogenetics, 2013 Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) is an Xlinked lysosomal storage disorder of glycosphingolipid catabolism, due to deficiency or absence of a galactosidase A (α-gal A) enzyme. The disease may affect males and females, the latter with an average 10 years
Franco Cecchi +2 more
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