background: pregnant women with insecure attachment style are at high risk of psychiatric disorders. since emotions are the first coordinators of attachment behavior, emotion regulation training can alter maternal attachment style. in this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of emotion regulation training on the attachment styles of primiparous pregnant women with insecure attachment style....

Emotional memories, and especially intrusive memories, are a common feature of many psychological disorders, and are overconsolidated by stress. Attachment theory posits that activation of mental representations of attachment figures can reduce stress and boost coping. This study tested the proposition that attachment activation would reduce consolidation of emotional and intrusive memories. Si...

The development of sensitive radioimmunoassays (RIA) for testosterone and oestradiol-17 beta, utilising 125I-radioligands, is described. Use of an homologous bridge at the same site of attachment, for both the radioligand and the steroid-carrier protein conjugate employed in raising antibodies, normally results in a loss of assay sensitivity and precision. This was overcome in the oestradiol as...

introduction: mother as the main attachment figure has an undeniable effect on affective development of the child. the aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship and predictability of girls` attachment problems through mothers` attachment style. method: sample included 388 individuals of second and fourth grade of primary school that had been chosen through multistage cluster ...

An experimental study dedicated to structurally ambiguous sentences processing was carried out. We analyzed the case of participial construction attachment to a complex noun phrase. In Experiment 1, we used self-paced reading technique which enables to measure reading times of each word in a sentence and error rates in the interpretation of the sentences. Error rates in locally ambiguous senten...

Measures of adult attachment reflect both respondents' broadly generalized styles as well as bonds with specific attachment figures. Using Cronbach, Gleser, Nanda, and Rajaratnam's (1972) Multivariate Generalizability analyses, the authors estimated the extent to which correlations among attachment, affect, the self, and perceived social support occurred for both styles and bonds. In two studie...

TOPIC Attachment theory and reactive attachment disorder (RAD). PURPOSE To highlight current perspectives on attachment theory, RAD, and treatment implications using a case study of an 8-year-old patient with RAD. SOURCES Selected multidisciplinary literature related to attachment theory and RAD. CONCLUSIONS The literature provides a body of work that substantiates the importance of early...