Mortality and causes of death of traumatic spinal cord injury in Finland.

Study Design: Prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To study the mortality rates of TSCI patients compared to matched controls and to examine possible TSCI-related mortality risk factors and causes of death.

Setting: Oulu and Tampere University Hospital, Finland.

Putting self at stake by telling a story: Storyteller's narcissistic traits modulate physiological emotional reactions to recipient's disengagement.

Telling a story to a disengaged recipient induces stress and threatens positive self-image. In this study, we investigated whether storytellers with overly positive and fragile self-images (e.g.

Environmental barriers perceived by the Finnish population with spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional survey.

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey of the Finnish population with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Objectives: To explore the frequencies of perceived environmental barriers (EB) that made participation harder for the Finnish population with SCI and to compare the occurrence of perceived EBs by gender, age, time since injury, and injury severity.

Setting: Participants were recruited from the registers of the three SCI outpatient clinics responsible for the lifelong care of people with SCI in Finland.

Shame in social interaction: Descriptions of experiences of shame by participants with high or low levels of narcissistic traits.

In this study, we investigate how personal experiences about shameful events are described in face-to-face social interaction, and how these stories differ between participants who have either high or low levels of narcissistic personality traits. The dataset consists of 22 dyadic conversations where the participants describe events where they felt ashamed of themselves. We found the narratives to vary in terms of five dimensions.