Title of Thesis: PARTNER POSITIVE BEHAVIOR AND RECIPIENT SATISFACTION IN MILD TO MODERATELY ABUSIVE COUPLES AS MODERATED BYATTACHMENT STYLE Laura M. Evans, MS, 2007 Thesis Directed By: Professor Norman B. Epstein, Department of Family Studies This study examined the degree to which individuals' secure, insecure/preoccupied, insecure/fearful or dismissive attachment styles moderated the relation...

Video feedforward is a solution-focused intervention used to improve desired behaviour. We present two case studies of using video feedforward in reactive attachment disorder. Children with reactive attachment disorder, their caregivers and their clinician completed storyboards of behaviours desired during a 'miracle day' and filmed the individual scenes. These scenes were edited to a prolonged...

OBJECTIVE The current study explored whether attachment orientations moderate the associations between caregiver burden and depressive symptoms among women coping with their partners' first time acute coronary syndrome. The association between burden and depression was hypothesized to be stronger among caregivers high on anxious attachment than among caregivers low on this dimension. In additio...

Although attachment security is relatively stable over time, individuals do experience significant within-person variation in their attachment security across time. No research to date, however, has assessed the relational consequences of within-person variation (fluctuations) in attachment security toward a specific attachment figure. Study 1 (N = 409) first examined whether attachment securit...

Although attachment security is relatively stable over time, individuals do experience significant within-person variation in their attachment security across time. No research to date, however, has assessed the relational consequences of within-person variation (fluctuations) in attachment security toward a specific attachment figure. Study 1 (N 409) first examined whether attachment security ...

Background: Childhood trauma encompasses neglect, abuse, abandonment, witnessing abuse, and having mentally ill and/or parent(s) who engaged in substance abuse. Survivors of trauma are more likely to report insecure attachment styles. Thus, the current study aimed to investigate the indirect pathways underlying the relationship between childhood trauma and romantic attachment among adults in In...

objective: the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between attachment styles and self-efficacy in blind and non-blind female high school students in tehran. methods: the statistical population consisted of all female students studying in grades one or two in tehran girl’s high schools, in the academic year 2014. the study design was causal-comparative, conducted on 120 subject...

we examined the attachment styles and its domains in a sample of rapists. 34 rapists were randomly selected among a larger group of rapists who were in captivity in central prison of mashhad city and were compared with 34 non rapist individuals (controls); all participants were matched on age, marital status, occupation status and literacy level. the control participants were selected based on ...