background: the purpose of this study is to determine association between personal, family, neighborhood, and social network characteristics and perceived intimacy in the neighborhood by the women. methods: in this cross‑sectional study, we applied a two‑stage sampling method to choose a representative sample of 150 married women and housewives, aged 15 to 49 years, who had education between si...

objective: to compare the effectiveness of rational, behavioral and emotive therapy (rebt) and person-centered therapy (pct) on self-differentiation and intimacy among divorce clients. methods: in quasi-experimental study, 42 divorce clients (both males and females) who presented to the counsling center of sanandaj, iran were sampled. they were categorized into three groups of pct, rebt, and co...

this study sets out to examine of the effectiveness of family therapy based bowen emotion system on love styles and intimacy among counseling applicant women, sanandaj city. the design of the study is as  quasi-experimental and pre test and post test conducted on the control group. the data population includes all of counseling applicant women of sanandaj city, one of the provinces of kurdistan...

Affective computing holds the promise of creating effortless, integrated, and automatic ways of communicating emotions within our intimate social network. This could augment awareness systems and connectedness devices, reducing loneliness and improving health and well-being. Through two experiments, we investigate the effects of quantity and automaticity of emotion communication on perceived in...

This study investigates the relationships between psychosocial risk, relationship quality, need for cognition, and quarantine intentions. Empirical data were collected from hotel guests in Guangzhou. The results show that depression, anxiety, stress have a negative influence on satisfaction trust intimacy positive satisfaction. Trust has intimacy. commitment. Commitment, satisfaction, Intimacy ...

This study explores factors that may influence one’s self-disclosure on SNS where one selfdisclose information in the public eye. Social intimacy and loneliness as indicators of one’s social relationship status are found to be both significantly, though contradictorily related to self-disclosure on SNS. Social intimacy and loneliness function are mediators in the direct effect of personality on...

The current study examined the effect of empathy on friendship quality in the context of dyadic same-sex friendships, and how such an effect might be mediated by interpersonal competence. A special version of the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to examine this hypothesis in 146 same-sex friend dyads in 10th grade. Results showed that empathy was positively related to intimac...

Chronic attachment insecurity can affect the outlook people have on relationships. This research examines how attachment insecurity relates to perceived importance of various features in a romantic relationship (e.g., intimacy, independence). Consistent with predictions, the results from Studies 1–3 (N1 1⁄4 53, N2 1⁄4 226, N3 1⁄4 196) revealed that greater attachment anxiety was associated with...