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Personality Functioning Cannot Only Be One Thing: A Call for Theoretical Pluralism

Personality and Mental Health, Volume 20, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Since its origins in recent diagnostic perspectives, the concept of personality functioning has been exclusively defined as a general factor of personality (pathology). Researchers have justified this definition by appealing to descriptive empirical findings (e.g., positive correlations among various personality disorder indicators) or ...
Orestis Zavlis
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Assumptions and Consequences of Different Conceptualizations of Personality Functioning

Personality and Mental Health, Volume 20, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Personality functioning (PF) is the defining criterion for personality disorder in contemporary diagnosis and a popular topic in research. However, research and dialogue on PF has been uneven and often ideologically driven, in part because semantic differences are often conflated with substantive differences in the way PF is conceptualized ...
Christopher J. Hopwood
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The effort of maintaining the defensive wall: is there a link between defense mechanisms and vitality? [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry
Vandersmissen A, Fissler Plischke P, Filippi M, Wenzel M, Bernhardt M, Krähenmann R.   +5 more
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Psychometric Properties of the Dutch Short Form of the Five‐Factor Narcissism Inventory

Personality and Mental Health, Volume 20, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The Five‐Factor Narcissism Inventory–Short Form (FFNI‐SF) is specifically developed to assess narcissism at the two‐ (grandiose and vulnerable narcissism) and three‐factor level (agentic extraversion, self‐centered antagonism, and narcissistic neuroticism).
Etelka J. Harmsen, Peter M. ten Klooster, Joshua D. Miller, Donald R. Lynam, Farid Chakhssi   +4 more
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Time to suicide after psychiatric inpatient discharge: a nationwide Swedish survival analysis. [PDF]

BMC Psychiatry
Berge J, Saric EF, Sellin T, Waern M, Westrin Å, Lindström S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Psychoanalytic Theories Do Not Support a Unidimensional View of Personality Functioning

Personality and Mental Health, Volume 20, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Contemporary researchers tend to invoke psychoanalytic theories to support the view of personality functioning as a “unitary capacity” involving “psychological maturity.” In this piece, I argue against this false equivalence by raising three points.
Orestis Zavlis
wiley   +1 more source

Mental health service users' pre- and post-therapy hospitalization rates: A data linkage study. [PDF]

Br J Clin Psychol
Jordan JA, Elliott A, Hill F, Dyer KFW.
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Navigating hardship: A systematic review of the relationship between adverse life events and university students' well‐being

Review of Education, Volume 14, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract The unpredictable landscape of our times, characterized by adverse life events ranging from personal challenges to global pandemics and environmental disasters, underscores the urgent need for comprehensive insight into how such adversities shape students' well‐being in the context of tertiary education.
Malamati Veloni, Aikaterini Vasiou
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Clinical, familial, and socio-cultural profile of children with mental health disorders in the Kurdistan region: a large retrospective cross-sectional study. [PDF]

Postep Psychiatr Neurol
Mala KZ, Ismail BMS, Abdulah DM.
europepmc   +1 more source