Abstract The cultural integration of immigrants conditions their overall socio-economic as well natives’ attitudes towards globalisation in general and immigration particular. At the same time, excessive integration—or assimilation—can be detrimental that it implies forfeiting one’s ties to origin country eventually translates into a loss diversity (from viewpoint host countries) global connect...

Attachment theorists maintain that cultural differences are relatively minor, and they focus on universals. Here the authors highlight evidence of cultural variations and note ways in which attachment theory is laden with Western values and meaning. Comparisons of the United States and Japan highlight the cultural relativity of 3 core hypotheses of attachment theory: that caregiver sensitivity ...

Most caregiving and companionship provided by family members and friends to older individuals in home environments occurs because of the caregiver's feelings of ethical and emotional obligation and attachment. From a legal perspective, though, it might be ill-advised for an informal caregiver to admit such a motivation. Building on a recently published study of relevant litigation, this essay d...

OBJECTIVES To explore clinician beliefs and attitudes about home haemodialysis in global regions where the prevalence of home haemodialysis is low, and to identify barriers to developing home haemodialysis services and possible strategies to increase acceptance and uptake of home haemodialysis. DESIGN Semistructured interviews, thematic analysis. SETTING 15 dialysis centres in Italy, Portug...

this study was conducted to extract first, the underlying factors of home culture attachment scale (hcas) and second, to confirm these factors via structural equation modeling (sem) analysis. to meet this end, the scale was distributed to 374 english language learners in private language institutes in mashhad, iran. to determine the construct validity of the scale, exploratory factor analysis (...

separation anxiety disorder (sad) is characterized by developmentally inappropriate and excessive anxiety concerning separation from home or those to whom the individual is attached. literature suggests that child attachment and anxiety symptoms are related. the aim of this study is to discover which symptoms of separation anxiety were associated with avoidant and/or ambivalent attachment. a to...

Abstract The reintegration of return migrants has been an important issue in migration studies for several decades. While much research done to identify returnees’ strategies and their labour market situation country origin, little attention devoted attachment, especially quantitative studies. This paper seeks address this gap, analysing predictors place attachment belonging among Polish Lithua...

<p><em>Kampung Batik Semarang is now developing into a tourist destination that thought to have place attachment. Place attachment built through creation, identity and dependence. This study uses qualitative method, aims identify places contain attachments, find out the processes factors form map relationship patterns of these places. The results conclude creation attachment</em&...

BACKGROUND Infant attachment security is a protective factor for future mental health, and may be promoted by individual interventions. Given service demands, it is important to determine if a group-based intervention for parents could be used to enhance infant attachment security. METHODS In a randomized trial involving 76 mothers, an 8-session attachment group called 'Right from the Start' ...