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Lee, Seon-Young; An, Donggun; Choe, Seung-Urn – High Ability Studies, 2020
This study examined if personality types of gifted students predicted their psychiatric symptoms and if the type of giftedness and gender moderated the relationship between the personality and psychiatric manifestations. "The Murphy-Meisgeir Type Indicator for Children" and "the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Predictor Variables, Gender Differences
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LeBoutillier, Nicholas; Barry, Richard; Westley, David – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
There are many anecdotal reports of a link between psychopathology and creativity. The strongest links have been purported between creativity psychosis, schizotypy, and personality. The aim of this study was to investigate the link between schizotypy and imagery-based measures of creativity; Barron's (1988) Symbolic Equivalence Test and Finke's…
Descriptors: Imagery, Creativity, Correlation, Predictive Measurement
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Templer, Donald I. – Intelligence, 2012
The present study was intended to provide perspective, albeit less than unequivocal, on the research of Lynn (2010) who reported higher IQs in the northern than southern Italian regions. He attributes this to northern Italians having a greater genetic similarity to middle Europeans and southern Italians to Mediterranean people. Higher regional IQ…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Schizophrenia, Intelligence Quotient, Genetics
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Giusti, Laura; Mazza, Monica; Pollice, Rocco; Casacchia, Massimo; Roncone, Rita – Clinical Psychologist, 2013
Background: People with schizophrenia show impairments in metacognitive function, including awareness and monitoring of one's mental processes (Self-Reflectivity (SR)), recognition of the fallibility of one's thoughts, and the ability to infer others' emotions and intentions (Theory of Mind (ToM)). The aim of the present study was to explore…
Descriptors: Correlation, Theory of Mind, Metacognition, Schizophrenia
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Li, Jie; Ran, Mao-Sheng; Hao, Yuantao; Zhao, Zhenhuan; Guo, Yangbo; Su, Jinghua; Lu, Huixian – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008
Little is known about the risk factors for suicide among psychiatric inpatients in China. In this study we identified the risk factors of suicide among psychiatric inpatients at Guangzhou Psychiatric Hospital. All psychiatric inpatients who died by suicide during the 1956-2005 period were included in this study. Using a case-control design, 64…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Schizophrenia, Psychiatric Hospitals, Suicide
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Niehaus, D.J.H.; Laurent, C.; Jordaan, E.; Koen, L.; Oosthuizen, P.; Keyter, N.; Muller, J. E.; Mbanga, N. I.; Deleuze, J.-F.; Mallet, J.; Stein, D. J.; Emsley, R. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2004
This study investigated demographic variables, including affected sibling pair status, as risk factors for suicidal behavior in schizophrenia patients of African (Xhosa) descent. Xhosa subjects with schizophrenia were interviewed with the Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS) and then stratified into two groups: those with ( n = 90) and…
Descriptors: Demography, Predictor Variables, Individual Characteristics, Schizophrenia
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Walsh, Christine; MacMillan, Harriet; Jamieson, Ellen – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2002
A study interviewed 8,548 participants in the Ontario Mental Health Supplement about parental psychiatric history and childhood physical and sexual abuse. Respondents reporting a parental history of depression, mania, or schizophrenia had a two to threefold increase in the rates of physical, sexual, or any abuse. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Depression (Psychology), Family Problems
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Ran, Mao-Sheng; Xiang, Meng-Ze; Mao, Wen-Jun; Hou, Zai-Jin; Tang, Mu-Ni; Chen, Eric Yu-Hai; Chan, Cecilia Lai-Wan; Yip, Paul S. F.; Conwell, Yeates – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2006
In this study, demographic and clinical characteristics of individuals with schizophrenia in a Chinese rural community who had attempted suicide at some time in their lives and those who had not made a suicide attempt were compared. Among individuals with schizophrenia, subjects with (n = 38) and without (n = 472) a lifetime history of suicide…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Suicide, Schizophrenia, Rural Areas