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...

Tested predictions that assertiveness and social support would be significantly predictive of psychological adjustment. Furthermore, it was anticipated that assertiveness and certain types of social relationships would differentially interact to predict adjustment, since positive and negative effects of both variables have been noted in prior research. Trained raters interviewed 156 persons rec...

BACKGROUND Rapid advances in brain sciences are challenging the validity of the traditional divide between neurology and psychiatry. The need for closer ties has been widely advocated. OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes of neurologists and psychiatrists to closer links in general and to joint education in particular. METHODS Postal questionnaire survey of trainees (SpRs) trainers (Members of Spe...

Peter G.W. Keen is executive director of the International Center for Information Technologies (ICIT). Dr. Keen has been an advisor to the senior mangement of multinational corporations, airlines, petrochemical and financial service firms in Europe, North and South America and Asia. He has also advised governments and government agencies in several countries. As an educator, Dr. Keen served on ...