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The purpose of this report is to examine the extent of psychological disability and its impact throughout the lifespan. The report is based on a secondary analysis of the official survey of Psychological Disability by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Psychological disability encompasses abroad continuum of developmental, cognitive and psychiatric disorders. It affects 3.4 per cent of the population (around 770,000 Australians) and accounts for one-fifth of all persons with a disability. Depression and mood affective disorders are its major components. It does feature as an independent condition but in 88% of cases exists in conjunction with other long-term health factors. This disability increases monotonically across the age groups and rises dramatically from ages 65 and over. The proportion at the extremes of age is moderated by gender. Almost all persons with a psychiatric disability (96.5%) experienced a restriction in their daily living activities or some form of schooling or employment restriction. A tentative framework for the study of psychological disability across the lifespan is introduced.

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The attentional response times influence the capacity to manage cognitive and behavioral activities. This study investigated the age-related changes of the “attentional activity rate”, i.e., the speed of the attentional responses in elderly adults. The role of cognitive functioning and gender were also analysed. Participants were 240 old adults aged from 65 to 85 years. The response times during the execution of tasks measuring “selective attention”, “focused attention”, “divided attention” and “alternating attention” were evaluated. Results showed a decreasing of the speed of the attentional responses with increasing age. The age-related changes of the “attentional activity rate” did not involve all aspects of attention, and presented different characteristics in males and females. Interestingly, the level of cognitive functioning did not directly contribute to the speed of execution of attentional tasks when divided and selective attention were involved. Considering that the speed at which a mental activity is executed contributes to determine patterns of mental inefficiency in the old adults, the findings of the presents studies could be relevant for the developmental, clinical and experimental fields.

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Background: The life expectancy of people with intellectual disability (ID) has increased across the world with the advancements in public health policies and in the medical sciences. Still, people with ID have higher risks of dying prematurely due to associated medical and genetic conditions. However, there is no estimation of the mortality and life expectancy rate available for the ID population in India. In this context, this study was aimed to investigate the mortality rate in ID and its association with age in rural and urban settings in India. Method: Secondary data from the Disability Report for 2003 of the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) is used for analysis. Spearman correlation distinguishing age and rural and urban settings, t-test to measure the difference between rural and urban contexts and simple regression with age groups and settings, are carried out. Results: Age was highly associated with the mortality rate in ID. This association was strongly positive in both rural (ϱ =.954, p = .001) and urban ID adults (ϱ = .957, p = .001). However, the mortality rate did not differ statistically between rural and urban adults (t = 2.16, p = .062). For every one-year increase in the age of the population, the mortality rate was found to increase by 3.3 and 3.0 persons per 100,000 in rural and urban ID adults, respectively. Conclusion: This data analysis demonstrates a high mortality rate which significantly increases from the beginning of adulthood in ID Population. Further research is needed to support the findings of this study, and discover determinates of higher mortality rate or low life-span of the ID population in India.

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Parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) experience more stress than parents of nonclinical controls. One of the factors that is highly significant in the study of parenting is attachment. Attachment has a quality that transcends the day-to-day interactions between parent and child. The style of attachment in children with ADHD was examined in this study. The main hypothesis is that ADHD children would be characterized by greater insecure attachment patterns than control children; secondly, it extends our current knowledge and attempts to understand if the pattern of insecure attachment developed with family caregivers would be present also with school caregivers. A sample of 72 children (36 young children aged 4-5 years: 12 at risk of ADHD-I, 12 at risk of ADHD-C and 12 controls; and 36 older children aged 7 years: 12 with ADHD-I, 12 with ADHD-C and 12 controls) was tested on both Family Separation Anxiety Test (F-SAT) and School Separation Anxiety Test (S-SAT) measures of attachment. Results showed that the ADHD-I and ADHD-C groups scored lower than controls on both SAT scales. There was also a strong positive correlation between the ADHD children’s scores on the School and Family Separation Anxiety Tests. These findings suggest the attachment deficit may be an important but currently underestimated factor in the diagnosis of ADHD and that the family attachment patterns can predict the school attachment patterns.

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This study aims at assessing psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Body Weight Image and Self-Esteem (B-WISE) originally developed by Awad and Voruganti (2004) with psychiatric patients. The subjects were 1,033 non-clinical Italians with an average chronological age of 27.49 years (SD = 8.91). With regard to gender, there were 547 females and 491 males. Participants were administered self-report instruments: the B-WISE Questionnaire (Awad and Voruganti, 2004) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (1965). The exploratory factor analysis revealed the existence of 3 factors explaining the 48.03% of total variance. With regard to internal consistency, our study showed a not satisfactory internal consistency of B-WISE by obtaining weak values of α ranging from .43 to .45. We found significant differences on body image between males and females. Males showed a higher body satisfaction. Moreover they revealed positive significant associations between body-image and self-esteem. Results encouraged the use of the B-WISE questionnaire and highlighted the need for this measure to be employed in order to compare clinical and non-clinical samples. In particular, the B-WISE could be used as an instrument of screening useful in the early identification of high body dissatisfaction cases.