OBJECTIVE Musculoskeletal pain and avoidant coping predicts sickness absence, but how these 2 predictors relate to each other is unknown. We examined the main and combined effects of musculoskeletal pain and avoidant, behavioural coping on incidence of sickness absence. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Prospective cohort study of a sample of middle-aged Danes, economically active in 2006, reporting functi...

Relatively little is known about the emotional processes underlying the association between adult attachment styles and psychological distress. This study aims to examine the role of contentment in terms of intensity and duration in the positive associations between anxious and avoidant attachment styles and psychological distress. A sample of 284 Chinese university students completed a self-re...

This article explores the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents. Key components of attachment theory, developed by Bowlby, Ainsworth, and others to explain the development of affectional bonds in infancy, ...

BACKGROUND Studies over the past two decades have shown that various personality traits of substance-dependent men measure differently than compared to normal individuals. However fewer studies have addressed the role of identity as an influential factor in the onset and continuation of drug dependency. METHODS The objective of this study was to compare the Big Five personality factors and id...

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 ...

Little is known as to what extent the pandemic lockdown has changed perceived level of stress and stress-coping strategies. In response this gap we present results quantitative qualitative studies on levels coping with conducted among Polish adults during COVID-19 lockdown. The first study indicates that appraisal moderately, it also affected strategies in various areas. second reveals miscella...

The research aimed to check if the construction of narrative identity by adolescents at risk maladjustment contributes their adaptive social functioning. It also identify factors related on which adjustment depends. A natural experiment was conducted in Poland among youths from sociotherapy centres (n = 60, aged 18–20 years, 33 women and 27 men). group graduates these 31, 21–24 17 14 men) inclu...

This study was based on the framework of attachment, reinforcement sensitivity, and positive psychology theories. The main objective is to investigate rejection sensitivity psychological capital as mediators between attachment styles social networking sites addiction. sample comprised 607 college students, data collected using an online survey owing rapid development penetration in China. Resul...

The present study examined variables related to the quality of the therapeutic alliance in out-patients with schizophrenia. We expected recovery orientation and insight to be positively, and self-stigma to be negatively associated with a good therapeutic alliance. We expected these associations to be independent from age, clinical symptoms (i.e. positive and negative symptoms, depression), and ...