This study was conducted to develop a construct model regarding the daily activities, emotional security provided by food, enjoyment of food, level of satisfaction with delivered food, and the quality of life of homebound seniors who benefitted from meal delivery programs. The data were analyzed by SAS 9.2 and the Structural Equation Model (SEM), which was created by Analysis of Moment Structur...

Understanding why interparental difficulties pose a risk to children in families experiencing domestic violence is an urgent task for ameliorating childhood psychopathology, particularly in light of the paucity of knowledge on the unfolding mediating mechanisms and the potentiating and protective conditions that underlie the multiplicity of pathways between domestic violence and child maladjust...

Maternal postpartum emotional distress is quite common and can pose significant risk to mothers and infants. The current study investigated mothers' relationships with their partners during pregnancy and tested the hypotheses that perception of prenatal partner support is a significant predictor of changes in maternal emotional distress from midpregnancy to postpartum, and contributes to matern...

security as a basic need for the members of society is in mutual relation to economic, social and cultural factors. today, this is of such importance in the progress of every society that it is considered as the prerequisite to any kind of development. social security has been defined as a complex – emotional – concept which is essential for protecting social groups and giving them the opportun...

This review addresses theory and research on the role of self understanding, language, theory of mind, attachment security, and parental style in children’s autobiographical memory development. Social-cognitive factors appear to interact with parental style in producing children’s first verbal memories. Emotional factors, such as attachment security, may also prove to be critical for the social...

In thesepages the Bulletin presents selected data on the operation of the three State-administered services that receive Federal grants-in-aid through the Children’s Bureau. Designed to promote the physical and emotional well-being of the Nation’s children, these services complement the two programs under the Social Security Act-old-age and survivors insurance and aid to dependent children-that...

The person emotional status has an association with his job security at work place has been focused in the study. The main objective of the study to ascertain the relation betweenperson’s emotional state and their feeling of insecurity atwork place. Participants for this study were 300 subjects selected from educational and health sectors in Mangalore city, DakshinaKarnataka District, India. Th...

The present studies examined if materialists have an elevated concern about food availability, presumably stemming from a general survival security motivation. Study 1 found that materialists set a greater life goal of food security, and reported more food insecurity during their childhood. Materialists reported less present-day food insecurity. Study 2 revealed that materialists stored/hoarded...

Title of Document: DETERMINANTS AND BEHAVIORAL CORRELATES OF STATE-LEVEL ANXIETY IN CLINICAL COUPLE INTERACTIONS Taryn M. Dezfulian, M.S., 2005 Directed By: Professor Norman E. Epstein, Department of Family Studies Extant research demonstrated that clinically diagnosable disorders such as depression and anxiety have detrimental effects on dyadic satisfaction in couple relationships, but studies...