Social Adjustment and Academic Achievement of Female Children with Secure and Insecure Attachment Patterns E. Ghorbanian, M.A. T. PourEbrahim, Ph.D. P.S. Seyed Mousavi, Ph.D.   M. Habibi, Ph.D. This study was undertaken to compare social adjustment and academic achievement of female children with secure and insecure attachment patterns. The research type was descript...

Being securely attached and willing to forgive your partner tends promote greater relationship success. Though attachment forgiveness are associated cross-sectionally, research has yet investigate whether how these positive factors tend codevelop over time. The current study examined cross-lagged effects correlated changes in forgivingness across a 2-year period with two measurement occasions (...

This research examines place attachment among older residents of the all-Black towns of Oklahoma. Social-historical occurrences, personal experiences associated with race, and expressed differences between social-historical groupings of older African Americans influence the level of social and autobiographical insideness among the elderly residents. The findings extend current conceptualization...

The present work analyses differences in the attachment representations of institutionalized children as compared with children from low and high educational level living with their natural families. Participants were 91 Portuguese children, 52% girls, aged 48-96 months. There were three different groups: 19 institutionalized children, 16 low educational level families' children and 56 from hig...

Insecure mental representations of attachment, a nearly invariant feature of cluster B personality disorders, have never previously been studied in twins. We conducted the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) on 33 pairs of monozygotic (MZ) female twins reared together as an initial exploration of causal influences on mental representations of attachment. As predicted by attachment theory, we obser...

Generation of social networks using Preferential Attachment (PA) mechanism is proposed in the Barabasi-Albert model. In this mechanism, new nodes are introduced to the network sequentially and they attach to the existing nodes preferentially where the preference can be based on the degree of the existing nodes. PA is a classical model with a natural intuition, great explanatory power and intere...

AIM The aim of this study is to compare the retention force of three different types of overdenture attachment systems used in implant-retained mandibular complete overdentures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one similar acrylic resin blocks were prepared and divided into three study groups: Group A (snap attachment) - 10 specimens, Group B (locator attachment) - 1 specimen, and Group C (syncon...