Lung cancer patients and their spouses report high rates of distress. Due to the increasing popularity of and evidence for mindfulness-based interventions in cancer, mindfulness and self-compassion have been identified as potentially helpful skills when coping with cancer. This dyadic study examined how mindfulness and self-compassion are related to psychological distress and communication abou...

The current study employed Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory to examine the factors associated with disclosure of HIV infection to sexual partners or spouses as well as gender differences in these associations among a sample of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in China. A total of 1254 PLHIV who had 5-16 years old children were invited to answer the questions related to disclosure of ...

The aim of this pilot study was to determine the differences in family-planning knowledge and compliance with programme guidelines among male and female community-based distributors (CBDs) of contraceptives in Kabarole district, Uganda. A semi-structured questionnaire was used for interviewing 70 CBDs. Results of interviews showed that the knowledge and compliance scores were not significantly ...

Our article (1) reports evidence for a relationship between femininity of hurricane names and fatality rates, along with experimental evidence that female-named storms elicit lower risk perceptions and preparedness intentions. In response, Malter (2) cites some bloggers’ critiques about inclusion of hurricanes from the era of female-only names, interpretation of results, and external validity o...

the sampling method is simple random sampling. in order to measure women's social adjustment social adjustment scale (sas) was used.there is a significant relationship between women and motherhood in social attitudes. consensual relationships between people and tends to be a mother, there is a significant relationship. the social adjustment of status after marriage roles as wives and mothe...

Donald Campbell has long advocated a naturalist epistemology based on a general selection theory, with the scope of knowledge restricted to vicarious adaptive processes. But being a vicariant is problematic because it involves an unexplained epistemic relation. We argue that this relation is to be explicated organisationally in terms of the regulation of behaviour and internal state by the vica...

Attachment Fertility Theory: Complex Systems of Mechanisms Simplify Sex, Mating, and Sexual Risks Lynn Carol Miller a , John L. Christensen b , William C. Pedersen c , Anila Putcha-Bhagavatula c & Paul Robert Appleby d a Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism & Department of Psychology , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California b Department of Communication and Ce...

his study determines married couples’ experiences that negatively affected their lives and relationships they have had difficulty forgiving, what did to overcome these incidents, how reacted each other. The also examines the variables predicting spouses’ marital satisfaction. employs a nested mixed methods design in which 289 individuals living Turkey participated. Of participants, 97 stated ha...