Knowledge of Baal's personality and functions derives chiefly from a number of tablets uncovered from 1929 onward at Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), in northern Syria, and dating to the middle of the 2nd millennium bce.
Although the theory holds that conflict and such basic drives as sex and aggression figure prominently in personality development and functioning, their presence may be neither recognizable nor comprehensible to persons untrained to look for those motives.
Although its beginnings were based in studies of psychopathology, psychoanalysis became a more general perspective on normal personality development and functioning.
Results showed significant improvements in symptomatic distress, social and interpersonal functioning, and personality pathology and functioning; with moderate to large effect sizes (d = 0.7 to 1.7).
The personal character of religious experience makes it essential to understand its varieties as manifested in different types of personality and the functions they perform.
General clinical symptoms are defined by early changes in personality and cognitive functions, followed by typical involuntary choreatic movements; advanced stages of the disease include bradykinesia, rigidity, and dementia.
It may be that a different relationship exists between personality and social function among females or among younger males with schizophrenia, or persons who decline treatment.
We supplement existing findings on a link between social support and cognitive function in later life by considering the role of personality as an antecedent to both, and of social support as a mediator of the link between personality and cognitive function.
This article provides a critical review of this literature and discusses the varying impact that any neurological insult will have, depending on premorbid personality and cognitive functioning, location of the lesion, age at which the injury occurred, child's pre- and postinjury environment, and ability of the brain to adapt to acquired deficits as the result of the insult.
Several hypothesized pathways have been suggested to elucidate the link between personality and cognitive function.
