OBJECTIVE To describe the quality of life (QL), knowledge and attitude of the elderly with diabetes mellitus (DM) and to correlate the QL with the knowledge and the attitude of the elderly. METHOD It is a cross-sectional study of household inquiry type and developed with 296 elderly with DM. The used instruments were: World Health Organization Quality of Life Bref (WHOQOL-BREF), World Health ...

Interaction intimacy, the degree of biological integration between interacting individuals, shapes the ecology and evolution of species interactions. A major question in ecology is whether interaction intimacy also shapes the way interactions are organized within communities. We combined analyses of network structure and food web models to test the role of interaction intimacy in determining pa...

This study examined the mediating roles of triangular love components (intimacy, passion, and commitment) in relationship between university students’ romantic beliefs marriage attitudes. The research sample consisted 376 undergraduate students, 289 whom were female 87 male, studying at a public university. In addition to Personal Information Form, four measurement tools, namely Inönü Marriage ...

In the current study we investigated the association between intimacy and passion by testing whether increases in intimacy generates passion (Baumeister and Bratslavsky, 1999). Furthermore, we examined whether there are partner effects in intimacy change and passion link. Couples (N = 75) participated in a 14-day long diary study. Dyadic multilevel analyses with residualized intimacy change sco...

This study examined how perceived position and velocity regarding approach and avoidance in romantic relationships relate to affective experiences. The authors hypothesized that perceived progress toward intimacy would predict positive affect and that perceived movement toward conflict would predict anxious affect. Ninety-two romantic couples recorded perceived levels of, and perceived changes ...

The author begins with general considerations about intimacy in life, the life cycle, and relationships in general. He defines intimacy as an emotional experience of contact with oneself and with another subject. He then focuses on describing the experience of intimacy in the analytic relationship, asserting that the encounter between two subjects and their subjectivities creates an area of emo...

This study used daily reports of interactions in marriage to examine predictions from the conceptualization of intimacy as the outcome of an interpersonal process. Both partners of 96 married couples completed daily diaries assessing self-disclosure, partner disclosure, perceived partner responsiveness, and intimacy on each of 42 consecutive days. Multivariate multilevel modeling revealed that ...

Objectives. The research aimed to examine the relationship between different types of adult attachment (secure type, anxious and avoidant type) satisfaction. Also examined satisfaction intimacy, commitment passion. Sample setting. sample consisted 120 respondents, university students aged 18 26 years (M = 22.54, SD 1.71). 97 women 23 men. Hypotheses. It was hypothesized that a secure would be p...