The impact of adult attachment to parents, perceived disease severity, and caregiving behaviors, moderated by perceived caregiving adequacy, were investigated in 108 adult children of patients with dementia. Multiple regression analyses indicated that attachment style, the trait aspect of attachment, predicted both aspects of caregiver burden: caregiving difficulty and psychological symptomatol...

Table 1: Frequency counts and percentages of different job types within the sample. Table 2: Frequency counts and percentages to show years post-qualification or pre-qualification. Table 3: Frequency counts and percentages for participant gender. Table 4: Frequency counts and percentages to show participant age. Table 5: Frequency counts and percentages to show participant ethnicity and cultura...

abstract background: attachment relationship provides a secure base for the infants from which to explore the environment and a safe haven to return to in times of danger. attachment style shapes the behavior of individuals in adulthood. there are many different measures of attachment and a lot of controversy about what they measure and how they relate to each other. hence, we tried to evaluate...

objective: the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between attachment styles and self-efficacy in blind and non-blind female high school students in tehran. methods: the statistical population consisted of all female students studying in grades one or two in tehran girl’s high schools, in the academic year 2014. the study design was causal-comparative, conducted on 120 subject...

BACKGROUND The Vulnerable Attachment Style Questionnaire (VASQ) was developed to provide a brief self-report tool to assess adult attachment style in relation to depression and validated against an existing investigator-based interview (Attachment Style Interview--ASI). This paper describes the development and scoring of the VASQ and its relationship to poor support and major depression. METH...

Introduction: Several studies have shown the relationship between emotion regulation and different mental disorders, so that difficulty in emotion regulation, as a key component, has been proposed in several psychopathology models of different mental disorders. On the other hand, high scores in insecure attachment styles are correlated to a variety of psychological problems and disorders. Given...

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....