Anxiety disorders and intimate partner violence: can the association be explained by coexisting conditions or borderline personality traits?

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public health problem. IPV perpetration is strongly associated with Anxiety disorders at the population level. We investigated whether the association could be explained by coexisting psychiatric conditions or Borderline personality traits, using a combined data-set of two National Household Surveys (n = 15,973). Results showed women were more likely to report perpetrating IPV than men. Anxiety disorders were associated with IPV. When coexisting psychiatric conditions together with a categorical diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) were investigated as explanatory variables, 19.2% of the association between Anxiety disorders and IPV was explained. Using individual Borderline traits in place of a categorical diagnosis of BPD, 58.3% of the association was explained. In conclusion, the association between Anxiety disorders and IPV was partly, but not fully, explained by coexisting psychiatric conditions and individual Borderline traits. Perpetrators of IPV should be screened for Anxiety disorders and among those with Anxiety disorders, Borderline traits are important.     

Effects of Perceived Control on the Relationship Between Perceived Parental Rearing Behaviors and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Nonclinical Preadolescents

This study examined mediational and moderational effects of perceived control on the relationship between perceived parental rearing behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a nonclinical sample of youths aged 11–14 years. Correlational analyses demonstrated that higher levels of negative parental rearing practices were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression, which at the same time were related to lower levels of perceived control. Furthermore, no evidence was found for the presence of mediational effects of perceived control on the link between perceived parental rearing behaviors and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Finally, there was a moderational effect of perceived control on the link between anxious rearing and anxiety symptoms. While the presence of low perceived control and high anxious rearing yielded relatively high anxiety levels, it was especially the combination of high perceived control and low anxious rearing that clearly yielded the lowest anxiety levels.     

文化经济论的时代意义

文化经济论是对当今文化形态与经济形态日益交融、彼此渗透、相互促进现象的理论反映,它凸现了人类社会未来发展的新趋势和新动向,并从本质、地位、功能和作用等方面揭示了文化与经济的相互依存及一体化。“文化经济”贯穿了以人为本的理念和科学发展观,是经济社会一种契合时代精神的可持续发展方式。     

论对中国特色社会主义的忧乐观

对中国特色社会主义的规律性认识是当代中国共产党人忧乐观形成的基本依据.刻苦学习马克思主义中国化成果是培养乐观主义精神的根本途径.科学分析形势,勇于面对问题是增强忧患意识的基本要求.     

商标权权利穷竭研究

解决商标权产品的平行进口问题应适用商标权的国际穷竭原则 ,该原则与商标及商标权的基本理论具有内在的一致性。商标权的地域性特点不能否定国际穷竭原则的合理性。同时 ,国际穷竭原则的适用也有利于市场的开放、贸易壁垒的消除、货物的自由流动。     

Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality,Parenting, and Motivational Factors

Anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in entitled attitudes and behaviors of youth in school and college settings. Using a newly developed scale to assess “academic entitlement” (AE), a construct that includes expectations of high grades for modest effort and demanding attitudes towards teachers, this research is the first to investigate the phenomenon systematically. In two separate samples of ethnically diverse college students comprised largely of East and Southeast Asian American, followed by Caucasians, Latinos, and other groups (total N = 839, age range 18–25 years), we examined the personality, parenting, and motivational correlates of AE. AE was most strongly related to exploitive attitudes towards others and moderately related to an overall sense of entitlement and to narcissism. Students who reported more academically entitled attitudes perceived their parents as exerting achievement pressure marked by social comparison with other youth and materially rewarding good grades, scored higher than their peers in achievement anxiety and extrinsic motivation, and engaged in more academic dishonesty. AE was not significantly associated with GPA.

肝心同治法治疗功能性消化不良伴焦虑抑郁状态30例

目的 观察疏肝健脾合养心安神方治疗功能性消化不良（functional dyspepsia,FD）伴有焦虑抑郁状态的疗效。方法 将90例FD伴焦虑抑郁状态的患者随机分为疏肝组、疏肝养心组和疏肝黛力新组,分别治以中药疏肝健脾方、中药疏肝健脾方+养心安神方,及中药疏肝健脾方+黛力新,治疗前后观察3组患者脾胃症状评分,采用36条目生活质量简表（36-item short form health survey questionnaire, SF-36）评价患者治疗前后的生活质量,采用汉密尔顿焦虑量表（Hamilton anxiety scale, HAMA）、汉密尔顿抑郁量表（Hamilton depression scale, HAMD）评价患者治疗前后的焦虑抑郁水平。结果 疏肝养心组、疏肝黛力新组在改善FD患者脾胃症状,降低HAMA、HAMD评分,改善SF-36各维度评分方面显著优于疏肝组（P<0.05,或P<0.01）;疏肝养心组与疏肝黛力新组疗效比较,差异无统计学意义（P>0.05）。结论 疏肝健脾方合养心安神方可明显改善FD伴焦虑抑郁状态患者的脾胃症状,并可改善焦虑抑郁症状,提高生活质量。     

Risk and Protective Factors for Peer Victimization in Adolescents with ADHD

ABSTRACT

Youth with ADHD are more at-risk for peer victimization than their typically developing peers, and may not be benefiting from current interventions. Thus, we sought to examine risk (i.e., anxiety, depression, and forms of aggression) and protective (i.e., social skills and social acceptance) factors for peer victimization in this group. Participants were 123 young adolescents diagnosed with ADHD, who were attending grades six through eight. We found that relational aggression (i.e., excluding others from activities) and anxiety symptoms were among the strongest risk factors for victimization. Anxiety symptoms were associated with victimization over and above depressive symptoms. Social acceptance buffered risk conferred by the risk factors. Future work is needed to investigate the degree to which the relations among internalizing symptoms and victimization differ in youth with ADHD relative to typically developing youth, and assess causality of the relations.     

The Logic of Terrorism: Existential Anxiety,the Search for Meaning,and Terrorist Ideologies

Drawing from the work of political theorists, theologians, anthropologists, journalists, philosophers, and contemporary psychologists studying Terror Management Theory (TMT), it becomes possible to see that the concepts of existentialism and ideology may be useful for modern thinkers attempting to understand a problem such as terrorism. Integrating work from these fields makes it possible to see that terrorism may be driven by an existential-terroristic feedback loop: a cycle in which people support or engage in terrorism to alleviate existential anxiety but ultimately find this anxiety exacerbated in the wake of the violence they create or sanction. The loop is closed when this exacerbated anxiety compels them to reaffirm their support of, or participation in, terrorist violence. If this model is valid, then effectively addressing the problem of terrorism requires joining existing U.S. policies with policies that address ideologies. Specifically, policies must aspire to a) mitigate existential anxiety, b) provide a compelling counter-narrative, c) address environmental factors conducive to radicalization, d) prevent the formation of radicalized groups, and e) deradicalize existing ideologues.