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4083.149 Cognitive deficit and comorbidity in alcoholism: Bilaterality of problems, Nikolay
Alexandrovich Bokhan 1 , Genrikh Vladislavovich Zalevsky 2 , 1 Mental Health Research Institute,
Russian Federation; 2 Tomsk State University, Russian Federation
Experimental-psychological examination of alcoholics (A) with comorbid traumatic (I) and
vascular (II) brain impairment was conducted. In group I substantial transformation of
characterological traits has been identified against the background of moderate (as compared with
premorbid) disturbance of dynamic of cognitive activity. Decrease of verbal-logical level of
thinking, weakness of mnestic functions in the structure of cognitive activity is combined with
impulsivity, tension, affect rigidity and actualisation of explosive-dysphoric traits of personality
(MMPI (469/-1230)). In group II anxious traits of the personality dominate with projection to
somatic maintenance with cognitive dissonance in general characteristic of intellectual-mnestic
processes.
4083.150 Psychosocial Influences on Physical, Verbal, and Indirect Bullying among Japanese
Junior High School Students, Mikayo Ando 1 , Takashi Asakura 2 , Bruce Simons-Morton 3 ,
1 2 3
Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan; Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan; National Institutes of
Health (NIH), USA
The purpose of this study was to identify the psychosocial factors associated with physical, verbal,
and indirect bullying among Japanese junior high school students. Junior high school students
between 7th and 9th grades (n=2,923) in eight junior high schools anonymously completed a
self-reported questionnaire. Deviant peer influence, less serious attitude in school, experiences of
victimization, poor self-control for aggressiveness and impulsiveness, poor self-assertive efficacy
against bullying, and euphemistic thinking in moral disengagement were commonly associated
with physical, verbal, and indirect bullying. Therefore, interventions focused on these modifiable
common factors could be effective in the prevention of adolescent bullying.
4083.151Can the millon clinical multiaxial inventory - III predict antisocial behavior? Gina Rossi,
Hedwig Sloore, VUB, Belgium
Logistic regression analysis on the MCMI-III scales was performed and 89.2% of predictions were
accurate (n=528). However only 32.4% of the group with antisocial traits (n=74) was correctly
predicted in contrast to 98.5% of the group without the traits (n=454). The limitation of this
analysis is that it is based on only one cutoff value. Therefore receiver operating characteristics
were added. Taking for example .064 as a cutoff-value for the predictions of the logistic regression,
the presence of antisocial behavior was correctly predicted in 90.5% and the absence in 53.2% of
the cases.
4083.152 Importance of recognizing street children, actuality living in the street, as psycholosocial
handicapped instead of delinquents. a small token, Gladys Carbajal de Carozzo, Peruvian
Psychology Board, Colegio de Psicologos del Peru, Peru
Comprehensive System was administered to 26 street and 38 family boys from poorest zones from
Lima. Personality characteristics and cognitive styles were compared. Differences reached 80%
efficiency. Although street children function is intellectualy average, their personality functions
Information Processing and Cognitive Mediation are severely disturbed. Their profuse and
complex circumstances including runaway from home due to maltreatment and sex abuse, assault,
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