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How does the public understand the causes of mental disorders? An analysis of Irish news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

How does the public understand the causes of mental disorders? An analysis of Irish news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Leigh Huggard , Cliódhna O’Connor Published: April 6, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284095 Abstract Public perceptions of the determinants of mental illness have important implications for attitudes and stigma, but minimal previous research has explored how causal attributions are spontaneously invoked in everyday public discourse. This study investigated how causal explanations for mental illness are disseminated in popular Irish news media, in the two years before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keyword searches of a…

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Dispositional and ideological factor correlate of conspiracy thinking and beliefs

Dispositional and ideological factor correlate of conspiracy thinking and beliefs

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jan Ketil Arnulf, Charlotte Robinson, Adrian Furnham Published: October 26, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273763 Abstract This study explored how the Big Five personality traits, as well as measures of personality disorders, are related to two different measures of conspiracy theories (CTs)The two measures correlated r = .58 and were applied to examine generalisability of findings. We also measured participants (N = 397) general knowledge levels and ideology in the form of religious and political beliefs. Results show…

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Translating trait to state assessment: The case of grandiose narcissism

Translating trait to state assessment: The case of grandiose narcissism

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Fien Heyde , Bart Wille, Evy Kuijpers, Jasmine Vergauwe, Joeri Hofmans Published: May 1, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284649 Abstract Although interest in within-person variability in grandiose narcissism is growing, measurement tools are lacking that allow studying fluctuations in this personality characteristic in a differentiated manner (i.e., distinguishing narcissistic admiration and rivalry). This study explores whether a measurement approach using the six-item version of the Narcissistic Grandiosity Scale (NGS Rosenthal et al. (2007)) and six additional newly formulated…

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Pain perception in personality disorders

Pain perception in personality disorders

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Spyridoula Bourtzoni, Phil Reed Published: May 9, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323004 Abstract Research has focused on pain perception of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder, but there is a lack of research regarding pain perception for other types of Personality Disorders. The present study explored associations between the perception of experimentally-induced acute pain of individuals without acute or chronic pain with Borderline, as well as Histrionic, and Schizotypal, Personality Disorders traits. The primary question of interest was whether…

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Predictors of Natural and Unnatural Mortality among Patients with Personality Disorder: Evidence from a Large UK Case Register

Predictors of Natural and Unnatural Mortality among Patients with Personality Disorder: Evidence from a Large UK Case Register

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Marcella Lei-Yee Fok , Robert Stewart, Richard D. Hayes , Paul Moran Published: July 7, 2014 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100979 Abstract Background People with personality disorder have reduced life expectancy, yet, within this population, little is known about the clinical predictors of natural and unnatural deaths. We set out to investigate this, using a large cohort of secondary mental health patients with personality disorder. Methods We identified patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of personality disorder, aged ≥15 years…

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The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits

The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jacqueline Howard, Howard J, de Jesús-Romeroo, Allison Peipert, Tennisha Riley, Lauren A. Rutter, Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces Published: January 27, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245099 Abstract Emotion regulation is a central task of daily life. Difficulty regulating emotions is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), one of the most common and impairing personality disorder diagnoses. While anger and symptoms of depression are instantiated in the criteria for BPD, anxiety is not, despite being among the most common psychiatric…

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Change Mechanisms of Schema-Centered Group Psychotherapy with Personality Disorder Patients

Change Mechanisms of Schema-Centered Group Psychotherapy with Personality Disorder Patients

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Wolfgang Tschacher , Peter Zorn, Fabian Ramseyer Published: June 22, 2012 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039687   Abstract Background This study addressed the temporal properties of personality disorders and their treatment by schema-centered group psychotherapy. It investigated the change mechanisms of psychotherapy using a novel method by which psychotherapy can be modeled explicitly in the temporal domain. Methodology and Findings 69 patients were assigned to a specific schema-centered behavioral group psychotherapy, 26 to social skills training as a control…

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Identifying distinct profiles of impulsivity for the four facets of psychopathy

Identifying distinct profiles of impulsivity for the four facets of psychopathy

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Samuel J. West , Elena Psederska, Kiril Bozgunov, Dimitar Nedelchev, Georgi Vasilev, Nicholas D. Thomson, Jasmin Vassileva Published: April 14, 2023  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283866 Abstract Psychopathy comprises antagonistic personality traits and antisocial behaviors that are associated with critical outcomes for the individual and society (e.g., violent behavior). Since its inception, impulsivity has been theorized as a core feature of psychopathy. Research supports this assertion, yet psychopathy and impulsivity are both multifaceted constructs. As such, the associations commonly…

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Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflict

Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflict

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Joshua B. Grubbs , Brandon Warmke, Justin Tosi, A. Shanti James, W. Keith Campbell Published: October 16, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223749 Abstract Public discourse is often caustic and conflict-filled. This trend seems to be particularly evident when the content of such discourse is around moral issues (broadly defined) and when the discourse occurs on social media. Several explanatory mechanisms for such conflict have been explored in recent psychological and social-science literatures. The present work sought to examine…

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The Influence of Parental Psychopathology on Offspring Suicidal Behavior across the Lifespan

The Influence of Parental Psychopathology on Offspring Suicidal Behavior across the Lifespan

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Geilson Lima Santana , Bruno Mendonca Coelho , Guilherme Borges , Maria Carmen Viana , Yuan Pang Wang , Laura Helena Andrade Published: July 31, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134970 Abstract Suicide tends to occur in families, and parental psychopathology has been linked to offspring suicidal behaviors. This study explores the influence of parental mental disorders across the lifespan. Data are from the Sao Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey, a cross-sectional household study with a representative sample of…

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