INTRODUCTION Coping with cancer, its treatment and recovery are dyadic processes within a relationship. Sexual dysfunctions and problems of penile cancer may add to the demands of coping. AIM The prospective study aimed to describe the dyadic aspects of sexual well-being and life satisfaction before and 1 year after organ-sparing laser treatment of penile carcinoma. METHODS A consecutive se...

OBJECTIVE Empirically based couple therapy results in significant improvements in relationship satisfaction for the average couple; however, further research is needed to identify mediators that lead to change and to ensure that improvements in mediators predict subsequent-not just concurrent-relationship satisfaction. In addition, given that much of the current literature on couple therapy exa...

OF THESIS PERCEPTIONS IN PREDICTING ACTOR AND PARTNER SEXUAL AND RELATIONAL SATISFACTION IN COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS The present exploration of perceptual accuracy and bias in romantic relationships bridges a gap in the literature on the ability of partners to estimate one another’s level of relational and sexual satisfaction, and its impact on their own and their partner’s level of satisfaction. A...

background: when a couple confronts cancer, there is a major impact on their psychosocial life. marital life and satisfaction with that are important factors in the quality of life of breast cancer patient. the aim of this research was to predict marital satisfaction based on hardiness in women with breast cancer methods: a total of 100 women with breast cancer participated in this study and co...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we have investigated the chaotic behavior of thermal convection in couple stress liquid saturated porous layer subject to gravity‎, ‎heated from below and cooled from above‎, ‎based on theory of dynamical system‎. ‎A low dimensional Lorenz‎- ‎like model is obtained by using Galerkin-truncation approximation‎. ‎We found that there is proportional relation between scaled couple ...

Purpose This paper examines home-to-career interference (HCI), i.e., the extent to which employees perceive that their private life has constrained career decisions date, from a couple perspective. Building on scarcity theory, authors expect higher levels of HCI among couples need more and have less resources and, within couples, partner who is most likely take care home demands. Therefore, exp...

background: marital adjustment is one of the most extensive concepts to determine and show the happiness and stability rate of couples’ relationship. marital adjustment affects on different dimensions of individuals’ personal and social life. the purpose of this research is to study the effect of solution- focused short-term couple therapy on women’s marital adjustment increase in qom in 2012. ...

Objectives: Mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer can disturb marital satisfaction of many couples. In this way, existential anxieties stemming from this potentially deleterious event, and inefficient responses to them, could be mediating. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a rehabilitation method based on existential approach and Olson's marital enrichment m...