Background: Infertility is one of the major problems in reproductive health. This research was carried out to evaluate the relationship between infertility, attachment, identity, sexual function, and sexual self-esteem in married women. Methods: In this causal-comparative and correlational study, 300 voluntary married women (fertile=150, infertile=150) in Mashhad were selected through random s...

Abstract Although several studies have highlighted a significant association between parent-adolescent attachment and well-being in normal adolescents, exploring this relationship among hearing-impaired adolescents are scarce. The current study examined the of with underlying mechanism Chinese students. A total 512 students from eight special education centers schools (female: n = 223; mean age...

Difficulty managing the stress of conflict in close relationships can lead to mental and physical health problems, possibly through dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, the neuroendocrine stress response system. Temperament, an individual characteristic, and attachment, a dyadic characteristic, have both been implicated in emotion regulation processes and physiologica...

A growing literature shows that even the symbolic presence of an attachment figure facilitates the regulation of negative affect triggered by external stressors. Yet, in daily life, pernicious stressors are often internally generated--recalling an upsetting experience reliably increases negative affect, rumination, and susceptibility to physical and psychological health problems. The present re...

Some young children are not merely insecurely attached and at risk for later problems; by virtue of the severity of their attachment disturbances they are already disordered. This article reviews and critiques the approaches of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) and the International Classification of Diseases (10t...

Insecure attachment and behavioral inhibition (BI) increase risk for internalizing problems, but few longitudinal studies have examined their interaction in predicting adolescent anxiety. This study included 165 adolescents (ages 14-17 years) selected based on their reactivity to novelty at 4 months. Infant attachment was assessed with the Strange Situation. Multimethod BI assessments were cond...

Background: The Friends and Family Interview (FFI) is assumed to be a valid method study attachment stability attachment-related psychopathological processes in adolescence, but no studies have yet tested the test–retest reliability of this interview or longitudinal association patterns response FFI from adolescents with symptoms such as psychotic-like experiences (e.g., hallucinations, bizarre...

Adolescence is a vital stage susceptible to the development of stress and emotional problems that reduce well-being. The aim this work was study relationship between attachment mother, father, peers, considering mediating role stress, controlling influence gender age. We also studied with scholar familiar variables. 700 Spanish students (54.1% girls) 12 15 years participated (M = 13.59; SD 1.07...