INTRODUCTION Among allergic patients, pet avoidance is commonly recommended. It is difficult for patients to accomplish this because of their emotional attachment to the pets, and its effectiveness is controversial. OBJECTIVE To explore the applicability and effectiveness of pet avoidance measures among sensitized patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 288 patients with asthma, rhinit...

OBJECTIVE To examine infant attachment and developmental functioning shortly after international adoption. METHODS At 14 months, infant-mother attachment and mental (MDI) and psychomotor (PDI) development were assessed in 70 internationally adopted children. Mean age at arrival was 5.5 months, mean stay in the adoptive family 8.7 months. RESULTS Adopted children's MDI and PDI did not deviat...

Attachment is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary cultural geography. Cultural geography full of relations that look like attachments. But attachment as a concept mostly absent, used interchangeably with association, connection or simply relation per se. In this article, I respond to dissatisfaction the flattening effects relational turn by arguing for orientated Engaging work Lauren Berlant...

This study examined relationships among ethnicity, self-construals, and 2 risk factors for marital violence (anger, insecure attachment) in Korean American and European American male batterers. Korean (vs. European) American batterers experienced more anger and controlled their anger less. Independent self-construal was positively associated with anger experience and anger control and mediated ...

Introduction: Place attachment influences the way adolescents form their identity. The home and school environments, as two main provide foundation for development of adolescent Positive to both these environments can with a sense stability consistency, helping them understand who they are, where come from, what is important them. This study aimed explore place profile in environment formation ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the association between attachment security in children aged 24 months and their risk for obesity at 4½ years of age. Insecure attachment is associated with unhealthy physiologic and behavioral responses to stress, which could lead to development of obesity. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING National sample of US children born in 2001. PARTICIPANTS Children and mothers pa...

Many studies have modeled several different concepts to explain destination loyalty; however, none integrated place-oriented (e.g., image, place attachment) and people-oriented cultural distance, social emotional solidarity) for their relative influences on loyalty. The current study tested the influence of image (place-oriented) perceived distances (people-oriented) as antecedents attachment s...

in 2010, the ministry of education of one of the most diverse provinces in canada initiated the implementation of a support program for newcomer students to facilitate their academic, linguistic, social, and cultural adaptation in french speaking schools. this longitudinal multiple case study will document how immigrant parents support their children’s learning, and create a home environment co...

aim and background: complex nature of children`s affectionate problems requires assessment and usage of modern treatments. the present study aimed to investigate the effects of attachment-based therapy on depression symptoms in girl students of primary school who had attachment problems. methods and materials: this study was an empirical plan with pretest-posttest, follow up and control group. ...