Animal hoarding is a poorly understood, maladaptive, destructive behavior whose etiology and pathology are only beginning to emerge. We compare and contrast animal hoarding to the compulsive hoarding of objects and proceed to draw upon attachment theory, the literature of personality disorder and trauma, and our own clinical experience to propose a developmental trajectory. Throughout life, the...

AIM The aim of this study was to diagnose particular personality characteristics of women with suicide attempts: psychological femininity and masculinity, self-appeal, attachment styles, self-presentation strategies and coping styles. METHOD A group of 35 adult women who attempted suicide and the control group (35 women) were submitted to a research. The following measures were used: Inventor...

This research aims to study the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company. The relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company has been studied separately for materials, manpower, machinery, and whole of company. In this study, traditional method was used to collect quality costs and PAF model was used to determine the components of ...

background and aim:the aim of the present study was to study the relation between social connectedness, and quality attachment to parents and adults. method: in order to accomplish the stated goal, 120 college students were selected by means of random sampling. adult attachment scale, measure of childhood attachment to each parent, and scale of keen connectedness were given to participants to c...

We have demonstrated recently that calreticulin, an intracellular calcium-binding protein, can interact with the alpha-subunits of integrin receptors via the highly conserved KXGFFKR amino acid sequence present in the cytoplasmic domains of all integrin alpha-subunits (Rojiani et al. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 9859-9866). Here we demonstrate that calreticulin can be co-localized by immunofluoresce...

abstract the purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between secure-insecure attachment styles and cognitive distortions . to this end, 403 students from ferdowsi university of mashhad were selected using a random clustering procedure, and completed the collins and read (1990) attachment styles questionnaire and becham, leber, watkins, boyer, and cook’d (1986) cognitive triad i...

Based on the predictions of the attachment theory and the Common Sense Model of illness perceptions, the current study focused on the role played by illness perceptions in explaining the path linking attachment orientations to negative affect during recovery from cardiac illness. We predicted two putative mechanisms: (1) illness perceptions would mediate the direct association between attachmen...