David P. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Jüri Allïk et al.
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model ...
Daniel V. Caputo
Ashley K. Randall, Gabriel A. León, Emanuele Basili, Tamás Martos et al.
Following the global outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, individuals report psychological distress associated with the “new normal”—social distancing, financial hardships, and increased responsibilities while working from home. Given the interpersonal nature of stress and coping responses between ro...
River Chun‐Wai Wong, Chun Shing Kwok, Aditya Narain, Martha Gulati et al.
BACKGROUND: The influence of marital status on the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and prognosis after CVD is inconclusive. We systematically reviewed the literature to determine how marital status influences CVD and prognosis after CVD. METHODS: A search of MEDLINE and Embase in January 2...
Maigun Edhborg, Hashima E Nasreen, Zarina Nahar Kabir
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of depressive and anxiety symptoms on maternal bonding to the infant 2-3 months postpartum and the influence of the mother's bonding to the infant during pregnancy and to her own caregiver during her childhood on maternal bonding 2-3 months pos...
John Rust, Susan Golombok, John Collier
In a study of 28 attenders of a sexual and marital clinic, the relationship between marital distress and both general and specific sexual dysfunctions was investigated. It was found that for men there was a much closer relationship between sexual and marital problems than for women. In particular, i...
Md. Jahirul Islam, Lisa Broidy, Kathleen Baird, Paul Mazerolle
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Intimate partner violence (IPV) around the time of pregnancy is a serious public health concern and is known to have an adverse effect on perinatal mental health. In order to craft appropriate and effective interventions, it is important to understand how the association b...
Kay Bradford, Brian K. Barber, Joseph A. Olsen, Suzanne L. Maughan et al.
This study assessed the associations between interparental conflict (IPC), parenting, and individual functioning among data gathered from school-going adolescents in Bangladesh, China, India, Bosnia, Germany, Palestine, Colombia, United States and three ethnic groups within South Africa. Specificall...
Howard J. Markman, Alan J. Hawkins, Scott M. Stanley, W. Kim Halford et al.
This article systematically reviewed 34 rigorous evaluation studies of couple relationship education (CRE) programs from 2010 to 2019 that met the criteria for Level 1 well-established interventions. Significant advances include reaching more diverse and disadvantaged target populations with positiv...
Melissa Parlar, Paul Frewen, Anthony Nazarov, Carolina Oremus et al.
OBJECTIVE: Although studies increasingly point toward problems with social cognition among individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), few studies have assessed empathic responding. The aim of the current study was to investigate empathic responding in women with PTSD related to childhood...
Towfiqua Mahfuza Islam, Md. Ismail Tareque, Andrew D. Tiedt, Nazrul Hoque
BACKGROUND: A number of individual risk factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) have been identified in Bangladesh. However, the etiology of IPV, intergenerational transmission, has never been tested in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE: We examined whether witnessing inter-parental physical violence (IPPV)...
Erika Lunkenheimer, Anna Lichtwarck‐Aschoff, Tom Hollenstein, Christine J. Kemp et al.
OBJECTIVE: Parent-child coercive cycles have been associated with both rigidity and inconsistency in parenting behavior. To explain these mixed findings, we examined real-time variability in maternal responses to children's off-task behavior to determine whether this common trigger of the coercive c...
Karen L. Blair, Caroline F. Pukall
Although social support for relationships is a commonly studied topic, the literature is divided upon whether social support from parents versus friends plays a more important role in predicting relational and health outcomes. Using a sample (N=698) of heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transg...
Sumbleen Ali, Nazma Khatun, Abdul Khaleque, Ronald P. Rohner
Extensive cross-cultural evidence supports the conclusion that children and adults everywhere understand themselves to be cared about (accepted) or not cared about (rejected) by the people most important to them (e.g., parents) in four ways. These four ways include the perception of warmth/affection...
Tobias Ringeisen, Diana Raufelder
This study examined gender-specific relationships between adolescents' perceptions of school-related support/pressure from their parents and test anxiety. A sample of German students (N = 845; Mage = 15.32; SD = .49) completed questionnaires that measured their perceived parental support/pressure (f...