Summary: The present exploratory study focuses on mild cognitive deficits in the elderly, deficits extending in their intensity beyond a normal decline in performance but (as yet) less severe than the onset of dementia. We investigated correlations ...
Personality and life events: Predictive relationsAbstract. Whereas life-event research has primarily centered on the developmental and differential effects of life events, the present study focuses on influences in the opposite direction. Proceeding from ...
Zusammenfassung.Theoretischer Hintergrund: Verschiedene Studien weisen darauf hin, dass Stress in der Kindheit dauerhaft für weitere Stresserfahrungen sensitiviert. Fragestellung: Besteht bei Patient/innen mit psychischen Erkrankungen ein Zusammenhang ...
In the Dutch research program “Life-Course Dynamics” three projects in progress are presented which study the self-organization of behavior over the course of life at different levels of theorizing on the basis of a longitudinal data set, generated by ...
Background: Quantitative studies in several European countries showed that 10–20% of older people have or have had a wish to die. Aims: To improve our understanding of why some older people develop a wish to die. Methods: In-depth interviews with people ...
Abstract.Background: The circumstances surrounding death by suicide can give us insight into the factors affecting suicide risk in particular regions. Aims: This study examined gender and circumstances surrounding death by suicide in Northern Ireland ...
The research described here is based on Moos' theoretical framework -(1988), which assumes that events and coping strategies in the lives of individuals depend on personal and social factors operating on these individuals. The present project attempts to ...
Twenty-one potentially traumatizing and distressing events, and the impact of these events were described in a representative sample of 183 9th grade Lithuanian adolescents (M = 15.1 years). The participants had been directly exposed to a mean of 1.9 ...