Self-control predicts attentional bias assessed by online shopping-related Stroop in high online shopping addiction tendency college students
The aim of this study was to examine the relationships of personality types (i.e., self-control, BAS/BIS) and online shopping addiction (OSA) behavior and to investigate whether high-OSA tendency individuals display attentional biases toward online shopping-related (OS-related) stimuli as well as the links between attentional bias and personality types. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Zhaocai Jiang, Xiuxin Zhao, Cancan Li Source Type: research
Gambling Disorder, DSM-5 Criteria and Symptom Severity
Gambling Disorder (GD) is a prevalent psychiatric condition whose severity is typically defined by the number of DSM-5 criteria met out of a maximum of nine. The relationships between the levels of gambling severity, thus defined, and other measures of psychopathology and everyday functioning are clinically important. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jon E. Grant, Brian L. Odlaug, Samuel R. Chamberlain Source Type: research
The influence of personality traits and emotional and behavioral problems on repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in a school sample
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is highly prevalent among adolescents and associated with various mental health problems and suicidality. Previous studies have found that certain personality traits are related to NSSI behavior, however only few studies examined personality traits in adolescents with NSSI. Our study aimed to assess the relationship between personality traits and emotional and behavioral problems in predicting repetitive NSSI among adolescents from a school sample. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Janine L üdtke, Benedict Weizenegger, Rachel Rauber, Brigitte Contin, Tina In-Albon, Marc Schmid Source Type: research
Mental Disorder Comorbidity and Treatment Utilization
Effective interventions have been developed for myriad common psychological and substance use disorders, though they remain highly underutilized. Previous research has shown that the likelihood of treatment utilization varies across disorder diagnosis. However, studies that focus on individual disorders have resulted in a large, piecemeal literature that neglects the high rates of multivariate comorbidity. The current study investigated the association between treatment utilization and transdiagnostic comorbidity factors. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Nicholas R. Eaton, Malki Stohl, Pia Mauro, Deborah S. Hasin Source Type: research
Feasibility and Acceptability of Post-Hospitalization Ecological Momentary Assessment in Patients with Psychotic-Spectrum Disorders
Up to 50% of patients with psychotic-spectrum disorders are medication nonadherent. The use of real-time assessment via ecological momentary assessment (EMA) on mobile devices might offer important insights into adherence behaviors that cannot be measured in the clinic. However, existing EMA studies have only studied acutely ill patients during hospitalization or more stable patients in the community. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ethan Moitra, Brandon A. Gaudiano, Carter H. Davis, Dror Ben-Zeev Source Type: research
Pregnancy-specific anxiety and its association with background characteristics and health-related behaviours in a low-risk population
Several studies have shown that psychosocial stress during pregnancy can affect pregnancy outcomes [1 –3]. Among the psychosocial stressors examined to date, pregnancy-specific anxiety is particularly strongly related to adverse outcomes. Pregnancy-specific anxiety refers to worries and fears that are related to a woman's pregnancy and has been shown to be a stronger predictor of adverse pregnancy outcomes than general anxiety [4,5] and depression [6,7]. Moreover, pregnancy-specific anxiety has been consistently found associated with preterm birth [8]. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 5, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Myrte Westerneng, Anke B. Witteveen, J. Catja Warmelink, Evelien Spelten, Adriaan Honig, Paul de Cock Source Type: research
Stigma-related stress, shame and avoidant coping reactions among members of the general population with elevated symptom levels
It is unclear whether mental illness stigma affects individuals with subthreshold syndromes outside clinical settings. We therefore investigated the role of different stigma variables, including stigma-related stress and shame reactions, for avoidant stigma coping among members of the general population with elevated symptom levels. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 3, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: J.V. Schibalski, M. M üller, V. Ajdacic-Gross, S. Vetter, S. Rodgers, N. Oexle, P.W. Corrigan, W. Rössler, N. Rüsch Source Type: research
Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Risk among Institutionalized Patients with Schizophrenia Receiving Long Term Tertiary Care
This study aimed to determine the cardiometabolic profile and the associated risk factors in a group of institutionalized patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder receiving prolonged hospital care in the only tertiary psychiatric institution in Singapore. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lee Seng Esmond Seow, Siow Ann Chong, Peizhi Wang, Saleha Shafie, Hui Lin Ong, Mythily Subramaniam Source Type: research
Risk of suicide according to the level of psychiatric contact in the older people: Analysis of national health insurance databases in Taiwan
Suicide in the older people is a serious problem worldwide; however the effect of psychiatric contact on the risk of suicide has not been fully explored. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychiatric contact and suicide in the older people in Taiwan. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Shin-Ting Yeh, Yee-Yung Ng, Shiao-Chi Wu Source Type: research
A comprehensive model of food addiction in patients with binge-eating symptomatology: the essential role of negative urgency
Food addiction has been widely researched in past years. However, there is a debate on the mechanisms underlying addictive eating and a better understanding of the processes associated to these behaviours is needed. Previous studies have found characteristic psychological correlates of food addiction, such as high negative urgency, emotion regulation difficulties and low self-directedness, in different samples of adults with addictive eating patterns. Still, it seems difficult to disentangle effects independent from general eating disorder psychopathology. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ines Wolz, Roser Granero, Fernando Fern ández-Aranda Source Type: research
Impulsivity and its Relationship with Anxiety, Depression and Stress
We aimed to assess the association between depression, anxiety, stress and impulsivity with respect to age. The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-42) and the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) were administered to 145 individuals. Due to a negative correlation between age, BIS-11 and DASS-42 subscales, participants were divided into three groups: young-aged (18 –30years), middle-aged (31–49years) and old-aged (≥50years). Subjects from old-aged group had significantly lower scores of depression, anxiety, stress and impulsivity compared to those from younger groups. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ahmed A. Moustafa, Richard Tindle, Dorota Frydecka, B łażej Misiak Source Type: research
Attentional biases in body dysmorphic disorder (bdd): Eye-tracking using the emotional stroop task
Attentional anomalies are known to underlie diverse psychopathology. In body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), characterised by repetitive behaviours and/or mental acts occurring in response to preoccupations with perceived defects or flaws in physical appearance [1], this forms no exception. These difficulties may not only manifest as faulty cognitive appraisals, during which patients focus wholly on their perceived “flaw(s)” to the exclusion of the rest of their physical appearance, but can also reinforce such erroneous beliefs via misinterpretation of cues involving social acceptance and feedback. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wei Lin Toh, David J. Castle, Susan L. Rossell Source Type: research
Genetic and serum biomarker evidence for a relationship between TNF α and PTSD in Vietnam War combat veterans
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased inflammation and comorbid medical conditions. However, study findings for individual inflammatory marker levels have been inconsistent. Some research suggests that resilience may play a role in decreased inflammation. A polymorphism in the promoter region of the tumour necrosis factor α gene (TNFα), TNFA −308 (rs1800629) is associated with psychiatric illness but its role in PTSD is yet to be elucidated. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dagmar Bruenig, Divya Mehta, Charles P. Morris, Wendy Harvey, Bruce Lawford, Ross McD Young, Joanne Voisey Source Type: research
Bias in beliefs about the self is associated with depressive but not anxious mood
We examined these relationships in people who present with a wide range of depressive and anxious mood across diagnostic categories. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: M.C. Obonsawin, J. Carlisle, C.J. Patterson, K. Black, K.M. Davidson, N. Masson Source Type: research
The role of set-shifting in auditory verbal hallucinations
In this study we examined the neuropsychological profile of patients with AVHs, assuming that the mechanism underlying this symptom could be a dysfunction of specific cognitive domains. (Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry)
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - January 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Sara Siddi, Donatella Rita Petretto, Caterina Burrai, Rosanna Scanu, Antonella Baita, Pierfranco Trincas, Emanuela Trogu, Liliana Campus, Augusto Contu, Antonio Preti Source Type: research
