Fluid intelligence and empathy in association with personality disorder trait-scores: Exploring the link

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 264, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 441-448

  Hengartner, Michael P ^a   Ajdacic Gross, Vladeta ^a   Rodgers, Stephanie ^a   Müller, Mario ^a   Haker, Helene ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cognitive reserve; Empathy; Fluid intelligence; Personality disorder; Processing speed; Social brain hypothesis; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DIGIT SYMBOL SUBSTITUTION TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NARCISSISM; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904856653     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: 14338491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-013-0441-0     Document Type: Article

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