Abstract The aim of this study was to estimate the contribution adult attachment style and alexithymia cutaneous body image in patients with psoriasis while controlling for confounding effects disease severity depressive symptoms. Participants were 107 consecutive (60% women) a diagnosis plaque-type psoriasis. Cutaneous dissatisfaction measured Body Image Scale (CBIS) Psoriasis Area Severity In...

Recent studies have demonstrated that social isolation during the 2020 COVID?19 pandemic has significantly impacted mental and physical health of people worldwide. However, it remains unknown whether activity can improve in a state emergency. The present study aimed to examine importance exercising stress management mechanisms (problem-focused, emotion-focused, avoidant) context indicators (dep...

this research has been conducted to compare purpose psychological symptoms post-traumatic stress in male and female patients. the sample of this study selected from two group ptsd male and female patients (each group 40 people) they were randomly chosen and matched groups by age and iq, when they completed wais-r. also examined by watson ptsd diagnostic interview (repetitious experience, avoida...

test situations evoke anxiety for many when the impact of tests on one’s life is considered, including the educational, emotional and other aspects. the purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of emotion-focused and avoidant coping strategies on the relationship between trait anxiety and test anxiety. 375 high students (193 males, 182 females) aged 15-18 were selected by random c...

introduction: mother as the main attachment figure has an undeniable effect on affective development of the child. the aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship and predictability of girls` attachment problems through mothers` attachment style. method: sample included 388 individuals of second and fourth grade of primary school that had been chosen through multistage cluster ...

Anxious children show attention biases towards and away from threat stimuli. Moreover, threat avoidance compared to vigilance predicts a poorer outcome from exposure-based treatments, such as cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), yet the mechanisms underlying this differential response are unclear. Pavlovian fear conditioning is a widely accepted theory to explain the acquisition and extinction ...

BACKGROUND Survivors of life-endangering trauma use varying resources that help them to recover. Attachment system activates in the times of distress, and is expected to associate with stress responses, arousal regulation, and mental health. OBJECTIVE We examined the associations of attachment style with posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) symptoms and dissociative symptoms, and posttraumat...

Adults with alexithymia retrospectively report emotional difficulties with caregivers during childhood. However, the association between attachment style and alexithymic traits may be evident at an earlier stage than adulthood, i.e. during adolescence. Sixty school-based healthy females aged 9–18 years (mean 14.08, SD 2.71 years) participated in an Attachment Style Interview (ASI) and completed...

BACKGROUND Various researchers have theorized that bereaved adults who report non-secure attachment are at higher risk of pathological grief. Yet past findings on avoidant attachment representations and grief have yielded limited and contradictory outcomes. Little research has been conducted with older adults to identify the psychological processes that mediate between self-reported attachment ...

Anxiety can be an adaptive response to potentially threatening situations. However, if experienced in inappropriate contexts, it can also lead to pathological and maladaptive anxiety disorders. Experimentally, anxiety can be induced in healthy individuals using the threat of shock (ToS) paradigm. Accumulating work with this paradigm suggests that anxiety promotes harm-avoidant mechanisms throug...