Background: Marital infidelity damages the intimate relations of couples and by exposing it, the tensions of the spouses increase and the marital adjustment of the spouses is damaged. In this regard, the present study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of group narrative therapy on feelings of inferiority and attachment styles of married women with experience of extramarital relations...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of behavioral interventions on the sleep/wakefulness of infants, parent and infant stress, and later child emotional/behavioral problems, and parent-child attachment. METHODS A total of 43 infants (6-16 months, 63% girls) were randomized to receive either graduated extinction (n = 14), bedtime fading (n = 15), or sleep education control (n = 14). Sleep measu...

Maternal mental health and the contents of her representational world are important determinants of early parent–child relationship. We examined, first, the role of prenatal and postnatal depressive symptoms and maternal attachment style in predicting the quality of mother–child interaction. Second, we analysed whether the secure-autonomous attachment style can protect the dyadic interaction fr...

Using data from the Durham Child Health and Development Study (n=148), the current study examines the associations between child and parenting variables at 6 months and child attachment quality at 12 months of age and maternal report of child self regulation at 24 months of age. Child and parent variables predicted distinct forms of insecure attachment relationships. Observations of infant soot...

This study investigated the association between attachment style and the use of a range of mental health services controlling socio-demographic, physical and psychological risk factors. Using a large nationally representative sample from the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), a total of 5645 participants (18+) were included. The majority of participants reported their attachmen...

Previous research has suggested that owners' attitude to their family dogs may contribute to a variety of behaviour problems in the dog, and authors assume that dogs with separation-related disorder (SRD) attach differently to the owner than typical dogs do. Our previous research suggested that these dogs may have an insecure attachment style. In the present study we have investigated whether o...

In a Natural Language Processing System which takes English as the source input language , the syntactic roles of the prepositional phrases in a sentence are difficult to identify. A large number of ambiguities may result from these phrases. Traditional rule-based approaches to this problem rely heavily on general linguistic knowledge, complicated knowledge bases and sophisticated control mecha...

the main purpose of this research was 10 study the relationship between attachment styles (secure. avoidant, ambivalent) and personality dimensions (neuroticism. extraversion, openness, agreeableness. consciousness) . two hundred and thirty three students ( 102 male. 131 female ) from the university of tehran participated in this study . adult attachment inventory (aai) was applied for measurin...