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Differential Person Functioning
Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2002The definitions, methods, and interpretations of differential item functioning are extended to the transpose of the usual person-item matrices. The primary purpose is to enhance diagnostic assessment in which individual differences in scores between content domains are clarified by conditioning the scores on item difficulty. Three examples are used to
Abdalla Alsmadi, George A. Johanson
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Functioning and Disability in Persons with Epilepsy
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 2012This study aimed to use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) to describe the functioning of people with epilepsy. The main questions we asked were as follows: what are the difficulties that people with epilepsy face on the body level and in daily activities?
Marina Casazza +7 more
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Social Function of persons with Schizophrenia
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 20021. The social function needs of persons with schizophrenia are similar to those of all individuals and include typical social roles, integration and contacts, and intimacy and sexual function. 2. Social function is essential to QOL, and aspects of social function are determinants of mental health and mental health outcomes. 3.
Jennifer McDonald, Terry A. Badger
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Temperament and Personality as Functions of Age
The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1996Age-related differences in three temperament (Trait Pleasure-displeasure, Trait Arousability, Trait-Dominance-submissiveness), and four personality (Achieving Tendency, Conformity, Shyness, Loneliness), scales were explored in three studies. Results, generally, were consistent with the hypothesis that scores on Trait Dominance and on trait measures ...
Jeffrey S. Blum, Albert Mehrabian
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Humility, Personality, and Psychological Functioning
Psychological Reports, 2021As part of the shift to a more positive psychology, researchers have demonstrated a relatively new and intense fascination with humility. Following a discussion of this construct and its correlates, we investigate how humility relates to personality dimensions, anxiety and depression, love of life and happiness, and self-efficacy in two samples ...
Lisa T. Ross, Jennifer C. Wright
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Defining Disordered Personality Functioning
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2002Current definitions of the PDs commonly combine descriptors of personality style and disordered personality functioning. This leads to artefactual comorbidity of formally separate disorders and compromising of diagnostic precision. We suggest that measurement of disordered functioning alone might provide a more efficient and precise first-level measure
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The concept of the fully functioning person. [PDF]
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice, 1963 Here then is my theoretical model of the person who emerges from therapy—a person functioning freely in all the fullness of his organismic potentialities; a person who is dependable in being realistic, self-enhancing, socialized and appropriate in his behavior; a creative person, whose specific formings of behavior are not easily predictable; a person ...
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The Evolutionary Function of Personality
2013Like the human body, human behavior has been influenced by the process of evolution by natural selection. In this chapter, we will begin with a brief summary of how evolution works and then turn to the question of how personality variation has evolved.
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Functionalism and Personal Identity
Noûs, 2003Is there any more to a person's survival or identity2 over time than the persistence of her memories, desires, and other mental traits? According to what I will call the psychological view about persons there is not. This view finds most forceful contemporary expression in the psychological continuity theories (henceforth PCT) of Derek Parfit, Sydney ...
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The Functional and the Personal Customer
2013Asked by an interviewer, ‘Could you describe to me how a normal customer behaves? Are there any points of particular importance?’, Mrs Weinlich and Mrs Kowalewski, employees at a discount supermarket, reply:1 Mrs Kowalewski: ‘What’s there to say?
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