The Social and Smart project proposes a new framework for the interaction between users and their household appliances, where social interaction becomes an intelligent social network of users and appliances which is able to provide intelligent responses to the needs of the users. In this paper we focus on one incrasingly common appliance in the european homes: the bread-maker. There are a numbe...

Provoked vestibulodynia (PVD) is a prevalent women's sexual pain disorder, which is associated with sexual function difficulties. Attachment theory has been used to understand adult sexual outcomes, providing a useful framework for examining sexual adaptation in couples confronted with PVD. Research to date indicates that anxious and avoidant attachment dimensions correlate with worse sexual ou...

background: marriage is a social institution that will form the basis of human communication. marital adaptability and satisfaction are what important in marriage. marital adaptability is a situation in which most of the time, the couple’s feelings of happiness and satisfaction are met. marital adaptability is made through mutual love, care for one another, acceptance, understanding each other ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether premarital relationship education and characteristics of relationship education in a community sample of newlywed couples predicted marital trajectories over 27 months. Newlywed couples (N = 191) completed measures of marital satisfaction 9 times over 27 months, and prior to marriage they provided information about relationship education and ...

Context: Couple treatment for pathological gambling is an innovative strategy. There are some results supporting its potential effectiveness, but little is known about the subjective experiences of the participants. Objective: The aim of this article is to document the experiences of gamblers and their partners participating in one of two treatments, namely individual or couple. Method: In a st...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on martial adjustmentand life quality of couples. method: this experimental study had been done by pre-test and post-test method, with control group. the sample population included students who visited urmia psychological and counseling service clinics in the second half of the year 2013 to receive pr...

Research on sibling dynamics and their outcomes in married adults is limited. The primary objective of this study was to assess how relationships with same different-sex siblings explain the state wellness marital satisfaction adulthood. Furthermore, aimed evaluate effects early childhood adult well-being meditative role relationship characteristics effect. A total 344 participated study, 237 w...

A sample of 50 wives and 50 husbands from Saudi Arabia completed a battery of scales assessing different aspects of couple relationship functioning which had been translated from English to Arabic. The selection of measures was based on the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model (VSA, Karney & Bradbury, 1995) and included measures of partner attachment, conflict behaviour, and relationship with ...

This is an empirical investigation about how non-pecuniary factors affect job satisfaction of IT professionals particularly working in data warehousing and business intelligence areas. We use Multi-level order logistic regression to test how job design and user background affect the job satisfaction of IT professionals by controlling non-pecuniary as well as pecuniary factors. There are a coupl...