Significant Relationships

Culturally Responsive Teaching For Significant Relationships

Representations of attachment relationships, the self, and significant others in middle childhood.

INTRODUCTION This research examines the interrelations of attachment security, feelings towards the self, and attributions about others in middle childhood. METHODS Five-to nine-year-old children (n=176) completed the Separation Anxiety Test, which provided a measure of attachment security and a puppet interview was used to assess feelings towards the self. A subset of 89 participants receive...

Significant drug interactions in dermatology

Systemic drugs have been used widely in the treatment of many skin diseases. Although dermatologists are familiar with the guidelines of selecting appropriate patients and prescribing systemic drugs, their knowledge about the side effects and significant interactions of systemic drugs used in dermatology is more limited. So a short review on important drug interactions seems to be useful. Some ...

Automatic Evaluation of Self and Significant Others: Affective Priming in Close Relationships

The affective priming paradigm developed by Murphy and Zajonc (1993) was adapted to assess an automatic evaluative response to friends (n 100) or romantic partners (n 101). It was investigated how a brief presentation of the first names and faces of relationship partners modulated the evaluation of immediately following Chinese letters. The visibility of the primes was manipulated by either mas...

Stress Exposure in Significant Relationships Is Associated with Lymph Node Status in Breast Cancer

OBJECTIVE Life stress exposure may impact on health and disease. Previous literature showed that stressful life events are associated with cancer incidence, survival and mortality. In animal models, patterns of maternal care have been shown to critically affect stress sensitivity and immunity trajectories later in life, by modifying DNA methylation during critical periods early in life. However...