Personality disorders

The internet and the ability to access a virtual social media network has revolutionized technology, but more significantly it has changed the way in which human societies interact, and function. In 2016, around 40% of the world population had an internet connection, meaning there were around 3.42 billion users with an internet connection (Internetlivestats.com). More specifically, American users referred to as millennials between the ages of 25 to 34 had the highest monthly internet usage…

Introduction: We’ll begin with the meaning of the phrase "it is far more likely that violent and non-violent antisocial behavior develops as a result of a series of complicated interactions with significant others in the social environment." According to the textbook, researchers concluded that “genes influence approximately 50 percent of the population variation in antisocial behavior, suggesting that genetics play a significant role in its development.” (Bartols, 2011) Genes are not set and…

intervene with individuals capable of serial crime, sadistic sexual acts, and/or homicide (serial or otherwise). Through limited and questionable research, the presence of these behavior traits has also been linked to a level of malformation in personality. Despite obvious shortcomings in its science, this triadic trend is still commonly…

An article called They made you perfect: A test of the social reach model of perfectionism was released in Sep-Oct 2015 located on page 421-431, volume 41 of Aggressive Behavior. Claire Wilson, Simon C. Hunter, Susan Rasmussen, and Allison McGowen conducted this study to explore the association between different types of perfectionism and different types of recalled peer victimization. This study will use a non-clinical sample of women and men which will further examine whether reflecting and…

Crawford’s Disorders In the film, Mommie Dearest, Joan Crawford demonstrates multiple different personality disorders, each of which take a part in dictating most of her life. A personality disorder involves repetitive characteristics that interrupt one’s home and work life. More likely than not, a personality disorder causes distress and affects the individual in a negative way. (Rathus, 2010, p.526). Four of these disorders that were shown by the main character are: obsessive-compulsive…

triad has 3 distinctive personality traits; narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopath which are inter-correlated. This group of people tends to be manipulative, admiration seeking, high self sense of importance, and insensitive in social context. These personality traits are maladaptive and destructive which resulting the dark triads less likelihood in sustaining long term relationship. The purpose of this present paper is to investigate the role of dark triads’ personality structure in…

The research in this article was designated to find out the effects of adult supervision to school-age children’s behaviors. In recently years, the rate of females who participate in the labor force has increased significantly. According to the US Census Bureau, in 1999, 78% of women who have school-age children were in labor force, up to 33%-64% compared to the rate since 1950 to 1980. Also, the increasing in the trend of single women was a result of welfare reform effort in early-mid 1900s.…

Many fans of the game play often downplay the breadth of the violence, saying it is minimal factor in the game play. Yet some games build a case against themselves, and reward things such as “headhsots.” Where having the adept skill to shoot your opponent in the head (a smaller, more difficult target) merit special recognition and bonus points, it makes the argument more difficult to prove. In spite of actions such as this, they hold to their opinion that partaking in these games don’t actually…

Narcissists are great at being chameleons. They are known for being smart, confident, and articulate, and usually very charming when we first get to know them. Oftentimes they are obnoxious, and love themselves anyway…at least outwardly. More striking — and more surprising — they were aware that people who knew them well did not have quite the same high opinion of them. They acknowledged that those people would indeed see them as self-absorbed and disagreeable. But they also believed that…

well as developing factors that will protect against it. According to Scileppi, Teed, Torres in Prevention, school based prevention programs are important in the undertaking of helping individuals who face the risk of establishing a psychological disorder. The key factor that school prevention program have, they “attempt to reduce prevalence…