Self-Compassion, Resilience and Mental Health in Community Adults.

Purpose: To investigate the associations among self-compassion, resilience and mental health of community residents.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Voluntary survey of web-based, posters-based platform.

Resilience and Quality of Life in People with Mental Illness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Purpose: Resilience is viewed as an individual' positive adaptation and experiences of adversity. The maintenance and recovery of mental health in people with mental disorder is considered a sign of coping with adverse conditions. The purpose of the present meta-analysis was to examine the association between resilience and quality of life in individuals with mental disorders.

Metacognitive Beliefs, Cognitive Functioning, Psychiatric Symptoms and Empathy in People with Schizophrenia.

Background: People with schizophrenia often exhibit deficits in empathy, which plays a major role in social cognition and interpersonal relationship. However, little work has investigated potential factors that influence empathy in schizophrenia. The study aimed to investigate the relationship among metacognition, psychiatric symptoms, cognitive functioning and empathy in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Self-perception of mental illness, and subjective and objective cognitive functioning in people with schizophrenia.

People with schizophrenia may have a negative self-perception of mental illness. However, the relationship between the self-perception of illness and subjective and objective cognitive functioning remains unclear. Thirty-seven people with schizophrenia were enrolled in the study group.

Health-promoting Lifestyles and Psychological Distress Associated with Well-being in Community Adults.

Objectives: We investigated the associations among health-promoting behaviors, psychological distress, and well-being among community residents. Well-being measurement was examined through health-promoting behaviors and psychological distress.

Methods: From March 1 to October 31, 2016, a total of 383 community residents were assessed in their health-promoting lifestyles (HPLP-II), psychological distress (K10) and wellbeing (SWLS and PWB).

Self concepts, health locus of control and cognitive functioning associated with health-promoting lifestyles in schizophrenia.

Purpose: The study aimed to investigate the relationship among self concepts, health locus of control, cognitive functioning and health-promoting lifestyles in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. We examined health-promoting lifestyles through self-efficacy, self-esteem, health locus of control and neurocognitive factors.

Method: Fifty-six people with schizophrenia were enrolled in the study group.

Cognitive functioning correlates of self-esteem and health locus of control in schizophrenia.

Aim: The study aimed to investigate the relationship among sociodemographic factors, neurocognitive factors, self-esteem, and health locus of control in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. We examined the self-esteem, internal health locus of control, and external health locus of control through sociodemographic and neurocognitive factors.

Methods: Forty-six schizophrenic patients and 31 healthy residents from the community or hospital were recruited as the control group.

Is a patient-administered depression rating scale valid for detecting cognitive deficits in patients with major depressive disorder?

Aims: Although cognitive deficits are a common and potentially debilitating feature of major depressive disorder (MDD), such subjective declines in cognitive function are seldom validated by objective methods as a clinical routine. The aim of this study was to validate the Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire (TDQ) for detecting cognitive deficits in a sample of drug-free patients with MDD.

Methods: The subjects consisted of 40 well-characterized medication-free patients with MDD and 40 healthy controls.