Psychology

Open Access Study Protocol Aoibheann McLoughlin , Anvar Sadath , Elaine McMahon , Katerina Kavalidou , Kevin Malone Published: November 23, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278122 Abstract Background Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people worldwide and remains a major public health concern. Research indicates that negative social contexts involving familial and peer relationships, have far-reaching influences on levels of suicidal behaviours in later life. Previous systematic reviews have focused on evaluating associations between negative life events such as…

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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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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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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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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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