Does COVID‐19 count?: Defining Criterion A trauma for diagnosing PTSD during a global crisis

The paper deals with Russian social and economic development in 2013 and prospects for the next year or two. The author discusses the logic and trends of the global crisis started in 2008. This is the basis for further analysis of current Russian economic performance with special emphasis on the problem of growth rates deceleration. Special attention is paid to economic risks and priorities of economic policy.

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Lack of Credit in Albania; Who is to “Blame” Analyzing the Demand

European Journal of Economics and Business Studies ◽

10.26417/ejes.v3i1.p122-132 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 122

Author(s):

Eugen Musta ◽

Elvin Meka

Keyword(s):

Interest Rates ◽

Small Sample ◽

Economic Situation ◽

Demand Side ◽

Working Capital ◽

Global Crisis ◽

High Interest ◽

Future Perceptions ◽

Economic Slowdown ◽

To Come

The last global crisis had it influence on Albanian economy as well. As the economy is still struggling to recover from the slowdown, a special attention is dedicated to lending which will in turn help investments pick up. Banks in Albania are currently flooding in excess deposits, but meanwhile the lending has hit its lowest score. What is refraining banks from lending? Is it really them to blame or maybe the demand is also part of the problem? Are businesses suffering from lack of funds to finance their activity or are they hesitating to invest and are waiting for better times to come along? The purpose of this study is to look into these questions and find the reasons behind them. This paper is focused on the demand side, analyzing some of the most important indicators influencing the demand for credit like enterprises growth, profits, planned investments, working capital needs, liquidity, etc. In order to get better understanding on the behavior of these variables the enterprises are divided in four groups by size criteria. The analysis is covering data for five-year timeframe, which is corresponding with the start of the economic slowdown. To help getting a prospect of the present and the future perceptions of the economic situation, a survey was conducted on a small sample of enterprises. This study comes to the conclusion that the demand for credit is growing, but what’s keeping businesses from applying for it, is mainly because of high interest rates and cost of credit, the study ends with some recommendations toward the solution.

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PANDEMIC. GLOBAL CRISIS. ECONOMIC STATE OF RUSSIA

Izvestia Ufimskogo Nauchnogo Tsentra RAN ◽

10.31040/2222-8349-2020-0-2-83-89 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (2) ◽

pp. 83-89

Author(s):

R.I. NIGMATULIN ◽

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B.I. NIGMATULIN ◽

Keyword(s):

Global Crisis ◽

Economic State

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An evaluation of DSM-5 Section III Personality Disorder Criterion A (Impairment) in accounting for psychopathology

10.31234/osf.io/z48tv ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Chelsea Sleep ◽

Donald Lynam ◽

Thomas A. Widiger ◽

Michael L Crowe ◽

Josh Miller

Keyword(s):

Personality Disorders ◽

Discriminant Validity ◽

Factor Model ◽

Incremental Validity ◽

Self Report ◽

Statistical Prediction ◽

Dsm 5 ◽

Criterion A ◽

Personality Dysfunction ◽

Axis I

An alternative diagnostic model of personality disorders (AMPD) was introduced in DSM-5 that diagnoses PDs based on the presence of personality impairment (Criterion A) and pathological personality traits (Criterion B). Research examining Criterion A has been limited to date, due to the lack of a specific measure to assess it; this changed, however, with the recent publication of a self-report assessment of personality dysfunction as defined by Criterion A (Levels of Personality Functioning Scale – Self-report; LPFS-SR; Morey, 2017). The aim of the current study was to test several key propositions regarding the role of Criterion A in the AMPD including the underlying factor structure of the LPFS-SR, the discriminant validity of the hypothesized factors, whether Criterion A distinguishes personality psychopathology from Axis I symptoms, the overlap between Criterion A and B, and the incremental predictive utility of Criterion A and B in the statistical prediction of traditional PD symptom counts. Neither a single factor model nor an a priori four-factor model of dysfunction fit the data well. The LPFS-SR dimensions were highly interrelated and manifested little evidence of discriminant validity. In addition, the impairment dimensions manifested robust correlations with measures of both Axis I and II constructs, challenging the notion that personality dysfunction is unique to PDs. Finally, multivariate regression analyses suggested that the traits account for substantially more unique variance in DSM-5 Section II PDs than does personality impairment. These results provide important information as to the functioning of the two main components of the DSM-5 AMPD and raise questions about whether the model may need revision moving forward.Keywords: dysfunction, impairment, personality disorders, Section III, incremental validity Public Significance: The alternative model of personality disorders included in Section III of the 5th addition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) includes two primary components: personality dysfunction and maladaptive traits. The current results raise questions about how a new, DSM-5 aligned measure of personality dysfunction operates with regard its factor structure, discriminant validity, ability to differentiate between personality and non-personality based forms of psychopathology, and incremental validity in the statistical prediction of traditional DSM personality disorders.

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