The purpose of the present study was to examine how relationship duration was related to conflict strategies and levels of intimacy in romantic relationships and how that might vary by gender. Participants completed self-report measures to assess perceived levels of reciprocal intimacy and reported uses of positive and negative conflict strategies. Results found an inverted U-shaped pattern for...

PURPOSE Sleep onset association disorder (SOAD) is a form of behavioral insomnia observed in children that is caused by inappropriate sleep training. SOAD typically disturbs the sleep of not only infants and children but also their parents. We investigated levels of depression and marital intimacy among parents of infants with typical SOAD, to understand the influence of SOAD on family dynamics...

In this paper, we present a fast cascaded regression for face alignment, via a novel local feature. Our proposed local lightweight feature, namely intimacy definition feature (IDF), is more discriminative than landmark shape-indexed feature, more efficient than the handcrafted scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) feature, and more compact than the local binary feature (LBF). Experimental re...

Objective: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and schema therapy on forgiveness and fear of intimacy in conflicting couples. Methods and Materials: This quasi-experimental study was conducted using a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The participants were selected from the conflicting couples who referred to counseling and psy...

BACKGROUND Lack of intimacy is currently the main concern rather than main concern of the experts in psychology and counseling. It is considered as one of the most important causes for divorce and as such to improve marital intimacy a great number of interventions have been proposed in the literature. Intimacy training and counseling make the couples take effective and successful steps to incre...

Objective To evaluate the effect of intervention by Teach-back and Douyin platform short video health education on stigma, reproductive quality life, family intimacy adaptability in women receiving infertility treatment. Methods This study is a quasi-experimental study. The period 6 weeks, was implemented between January 2022 August 2022. A total 80 (40 control group 40 observation group) treat...

Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position along five dimensions. We introduce a negotiation model based on these dimensions and on two primitive concepts: intimacy (degree of closeness) and balance (degree of fairness). The intimacy is a pair of matrices that evaluate both an agent’s contribution to the relationship and its opponent’s contribution each from an information vie...