Attachment theory and research suggest that patterns of interpersonal relationships may be important determinants of illness behavior, care seeking, and treatment response in individuals with chronic health problems, including chronic pain. Attachment styles have been shown to be associated with psychological adjustment in the context of chronic illness, but little research has been conducted s...

Attachment style and communication style have been shown in previous research to predict relationship satisfaction. We hypothesized that the ultimate cause underlying the relationship among attachment style, communication style, and relationship satisfaction is Life History Strategy (LHS). Furthermore, we hypothesized that LHS would not only predict relationship satisfaction indirectly through ...

OBJECTIVES Despite advances in screening and treatment during past several Decades, cervical cancer remains a major health problem for Iranian women. Recent researches have focused on factors related to development of health behavior in an effort to design effective early interventions. The current study aimed to investigate the role of attachment styles on cervix cancer screening barriers amon...

BACKGROUND Insecure early attachment experiences have been reported to play an important role in the manifestation in alcoholism. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of attachment styles with anxiety, anxiety coping and dysfunctional personality styles, as well as with the prevalence of personality disorders, and adverse life-events in adolescence. METHODS 59 inpatie...

BACKGROUND Mindfulness may be conceptualized as a dispositional trait which differs across individuals, so this study was, therefore, designed to determine the survey of mindfulness in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and its association with attachment style. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study which was conducted in Kashani Hospital affiliated to Isfahan University of Med...

several factors may make children vulnerable to psychological problems. attachment style can be considered as a risk factor for later psychological pathology. the main purpose of this study was to explain vulnerability to somatization and anxiety based on attachment styles in university students in tehran. the research method was descriptive- correlation. the statistical population comprised of...

This study explores the relative contribution of the overall quality of attachment to the mother, to the father and to peers (Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment scales), the style of attachment towards peers (Attachment Questionnaire for Children scale), the social rank variables (submissive behavior and social comparison), and sex and age variables in predicting the depression score (Cent...

this study aimed to investigate the moderator role of attachment styles in marital satisfaction and quality of life in married working women. this research is a co-relational design. the group included 514 married women who were working in the laboratories in rasht. with stratified random selection of 200 women from the group were selected from 8 laboratories. the population included 514 marrie...