The purpose of this article is to review attachment theory and relate the attachment perspective to adolescent mothers and their children. Attachment theory explains positive maternal-infant attachment as a dyadic relationship between the infant and mother that provides the infant with a secure base from which to explore the world. With respect to cognitive, social, and behavioral domains, secu...

Typically developing adults and children can rapidly reach consensus regarding the trustworthiness of unfamiliar faces. Maltreated children can have problems with trusting others, yet those with the disinhibited form of reactive attachment disorder (dRAD) can be indiscriminately friendly. Whether children with dRAD symptoms appraise and conform to typical judgements about trustworthiness of fac...

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...

This article outlines the motivation for a spatial approach as a novel focus for cross-disciplinary interaction and research in the social and behavioral sciences. The authors review the emerging interest in space and place in the recent social science literature and develop a vision for a spatially integrated social science. This vision provides the conceptual basis for a program of six activi...

The positive relationships between urban green space and health have been well documented. Little is known, however, about the role of residents' emotional attachment to local green spaces in these relationships, and how attachment to green spaces and health may be promoted by the availability of accessible and usable green spaces. The present research aimed to examine the links between self-re...

Place attachment has been considered in many disciplines such as leisure sciences or environmental psychology and through approaches. However, little done on the relationship between consumer place of service. In this context based recent findings human literature especially theory, research offers a conceptual framework explaining process by which resistance emerges from emotional social bonds...

Social Adjustment and Academic Achievement of Female Children with Secure and Insecure Attachment Patterns E. Ghorbanian, M.A. T. PourEbrahim, Ph.D. P.S. Seyed Mousavi, Ph.D.   M. Habibi, Ph.D. This study was undertaken to compare social adjustment and academic achievement of female children with secure and insecure attachment patterns. The research type was descript...

The sense of the place is a collection of anecdotes and individual or collective narratives that take place in association with the place, they play a role in developing social attachments to the place. This sense leads to a link between the individual to the place in which human being considers himself or herself as a part of the place and considers a role for himself or herself a role in that...