An 11-year study of the lives of nearly 500 MU students reveals the connectione between alcoholic parents and the neurosis of their children.
The study, “Family History of Alcoholism and the Stability of Personality in Young Adulthood,” by Kenneth Sher, a clinical psychology professor at MU, assessed the relationship between family history of alcoholism and personal stability.
Sher defines neuroticism as the tendency to experience negative emotions.Sher studied the normative psychological changes in subjects using the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire.
What the researchers found out is the sad truth telling us that much of what the scientists were seeing was likely a continuation of what had been set in place before the child was ever born.
Categories: Alocohol,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire,Neurosis,Neurotic Behaviour
Psychological depression appears to contribute to worse medical outcomes for patients with heart failure, ranking it in importance with such risk factors as high cholesterol, hypertension, and even the ability of the heart to pump blood throughout the body.
After taking into account such factors as disease severity, the strength of the heart muscle contractions, the underlying cause for the heart failure, age and medication use, a team of Duke University Medical Center and University of North Carolina researchers found that symptoms of depression were common in this population.
More to it, they´ve also found that depressed patients were over 50 percent more likely to die or be hospitalized for their heart condition than patients who were not depressed.
Researchers still don’t understand why depressed heart patients have worse outcomes. Among possible factors, depressed patients are known to have overly active immune systems, a decrease in the ability of their blood platelets to clot properly and a decrease in their heart’s ability to react appropriately to the stresses of everyday life.
In an attempt to better understand the role of depression ,
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An 11-year study of the lives of nearly 500 MU students reveals the connectione between alcoholic parents and the neurosis of their children.
