This exploratory study examined the role of satisfaction with support from family and friends on the burden and stress of parents of infants with a congenital anomaly (CA). The effects of social support were examined within the couple (actor and partner effects). A total of 36 couples whose six-month-old infant has a CA participated in this study. The parents completed questionnaires regarding ...

The eigenvalue approach has been employed to find the analytical expressions for displacements and stresses at any point of an infinite initially stressed orthotropic elastic medium with the effect of couple stress. A plain strain problem has been studied. New closed forms of displacement and stress components have been obtained. The variations of the displacements and stresses with horizontal ...

The transition to parenthood is a time of stress for many couples. Most research on the transition to parenthood has been conducted with middle-class, heterosexual couples. The current study uses multilevel modeling to examine predictors of change in relationship quality (love and conflict) during the transition to parenthood in 29 lesbian couples. Predictors included personality variables, wor...

This study explored secondary traumatization among wives of former POWs. Forgiveness and self-differentiation were investigated for their role in wives’mental and marital distress. Participants included wives (N 1⁄4 82) of former Israeli POWs (18 with PTSD [posttraumatic stress disorder] and 64 without PTSD) and a control group of 72 women whose husbands fought in the war but who were neither P...

INTRODUCTION It has been reported that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with secondary spouse/partner (S/P) emotional distress and relationship violence. OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between PTSD, S/P emotional distress and relationship violence among police recruits using a prospective design. METHODS Two hypotheses were tested in 71 S/Ps: (1) Police officer...

In this paper, the interdiffusivities in fcc Co-Ni alloys at 1373 K due to different types of diffusion couple experiments were firstly re-calculated via the unified Wagner method based on the measured composition profiles. Their maximum difference due to different approaches for diffusion couple preparation was found to be larger than one order of magnitude. Then, a comprehensive analysis on t...

Responses to many growth and stress conditions are assumed to act via changes to the cellular redox status. However, direct measurement of pH-adjusted redox state during growth and stress has never been carried out. Organellar redox state (E GSH) was measured using the fluorescent probes roGFP2 and pHluorin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In particular, we investigated changes in organellar redox ...