Psychopathology and personality in problematic internet users.

Few studies have addressed the issue of psychopathology and personality of individuals with problematic use of internet. In this study we research psychopathological symptoms, personality traits and predictive variables associated with problematic internet use. The study was conducted on a total of 343 students from four Italian Universities using Pathological Internet Use Scale, Big Five Questionnaire, and Symptom Check List 90 Revised.

Drinking and driving relapse: Data from BAC and MMPI-2.

Road traffic injuries are the ninth cause of death across all age groups, globally (WHO, 2015). Many road traffic crashes are caused by Driving Under the Influence (DUI) of alcohol by persons who have previously had their license suspended for the same reason. The aim of this study was to identify specific risk factors and personality characteristics in repeat offenders.

[Correlation among measures of stress, indicators of biohumoral nature and medico-legal considerations].

Introduction: Man devotes most of the daily time to work, and also a large part of physical and mental resources. Depression and many other morbid conditions can be related etiopathologically to the performance of a dangerous occupation in terms of quality (hazardous work activities, lack of motivation for deficient career opportunities) or merely quantitative (duration of work shifts, frequency shifts work). The medical legal ascertainment is limited because stress cannot be valued by objective nature, but only through precious elements collected directly by workers by questionnaires.

Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: an updated metanalysis of the scientific evidence.

Background: This is an update of a previous meta-analysis published in 2005.

Methods: It includes the data published up to march 2010 for a total of 247 papers and 18,300 cases. Cognitive deficits are examined in 5 different domains: Memory functioning (128 studies), Global cognitive functioning (131 studies), Language (70 studies), Executive function (67 studies), Attention (76 studies).

[Scientific evidence in occupational health: meta-analytical study of the burnout syndrome].

Background: According to scientific literature, burnout can be described as a multi-dimensional syndrome with three fundamental dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment.

Objectives: Since attention for this phenomenon is increasing, with a large number of articles published in scientific journals in recent years, we set out to evaluate the scientific evidence on this topic by applying the meta-analytical method.

Methods: All comparative studies performed on burnout were identified and examined in order to compute the Effect Size of the results.