Background/Objectives: Transitional attachment objects, such as blankets, play a critical role in childhood by helping children manage separation anxiety and regulate emotions. Although attachment to these objects often decreases as children grow old...
Precise object detection is critical for preventing damage to vehicle attachments during automatic car washing. However, the existing methods often suffer from low accuracy and false detections due to the diverse shapes and visual ambiguity of these...
10 March 2023
Rural community resilience (RCR) is crucial to rural sustainable development in the context of rural decline globally. Previous studies seem to underestimate the role of the built environment (BE) in the proactive aspect of RCR (P-RCR), that is, a ru...
24 May 2022
The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the efficacy of the new Self-Attachment Technique (SAT) in treating resistant anxiety and depression, lasting at least three years, among Iranian women from different social backgrounds. In this self-admini...
This research introduces an innovative passive vibration control methodology employing acoustic black hole (ABH) structures to mitigate vibration transmission in electric automotive steering machines—a prevalent issue adversely affecting drivin...
Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the biomechanical effects of different attachment placement strategies using rectangular attachments on palatal root torque control of maxillary central and lateral incisors with clear aligners. M...
This study proposes a data-driven control method of extra robotic fingers to assist a user in bimanual object manipulation that requires two hands. The robotic system comprises two main parts, i.e., robotic thumb (RT) and robotic fingers (RF). The RT...
Objective: The present study aimed to explore the relationship between insecure attachment (attachment anxiety and avoidance) and depressive symptoms in Chinese young adults as well as the mediating roles of positive and negative self-compassion. Met...
In the midst of the Knowledge Society, where social interactions, contact, and the establishment of relationships—whether face to face or through the use of new technologies—prevail, isolation is detected as a consequence of the global CO...
Background/Objectives: The effectiveness of clear aligner therapy depends significantly on the precision of force delivery through the aligner–attachment interface. This study aimed to evaluate the microscopic compatibility between different or...
In recent years, there has been an increase in the prevalence of mental disorders connected with affective dysregulation and insecure attachment. Therefore, it is even more important to understand the interplay between an individual’s attachmen...
Objective: Attachment and rumination were examined as the intermediary variables on post-traumatic stress disorder and medication compliance in stroke or TIA patients. Methods: A total of 300 participants with stroke or TIA from the Second Hospital o...
In the interpretations of Zhuangzi, there are four levels to the relationship between dreaming and awakening: awakening is more realistic than dreaming, dreaming is more realistic than awakening, dreaming and awakening are equal, and there is no dist...
Background/Objectives: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by qualitative difficulties in interaction and communication, as well as hyper- or hypo-responsivity to sensory input, which can substantially challenge the formation of mother-ch...
Attachment styles, rooted in Bowlby’s Attachment Theory, significantly influence our romantic relationships, workplace behavior, and decision-making processes. Traditional methods like self-report questionnaires often have biases, so we aimed t...
The exposure of children and adolescents to trauma is one of the most important public health challenges. These childhood experiences play a role in children’s attachment patterns with their parents and peers. The objective of this study was to...
In an effort to explain the factors contributing to the development of student burnout, a construct that has received attention in relation to academic outcomes, including burnout, is emotion regulation. Further, attachment theory has been used to ex...
A novel adhesion method of a sensor to a fingernail is described. Wearable sensors can provide health insights to humans for a wide variety of benefits, such as continuous wellness monitoring and disease monitoring throughout a patient’s daily...
Background/Objectives: The relevance of adult attachment security for physical and emotional wellbeing is increasingly evident. Developing a better understanding of the interpersonal antecedents of secure attachment in childhood and adolescence could...
Background/Objectives: Caregiving for patients with advanced cancer or chronic illness imposes substantial psychological burden, yet the role of caregiver attachment style in moderating this distress is underexplored. This multicenter, cross-sectiona...
Wall attachment has great potential in a broad range of applications such as robotic grasping, transfer printing, and asteroid sampling. Herein, a new type of underactuated bionic microspines gripper is proposed to attach to an irregular, rough wall....
Attachment styles have been shown to significantly influence individuals’ social and emotional functioning. Furthermore, vulnerable narcissism and emotion dysregulation are both relevant factors to consider in understanding individuals’ s...
(1) Background. In caretaking professions, attachment style and mentalization capacities are essential factors for establishing an effective caretaker–patient relationship and for buffering burnout. While attachment avoidance and dependency are...
Objective: Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) report more issues in social interaction compared to the general population. Moreover, dimensions of dissociation are considered dysfunctional strategies to cope with adverse life events. In...
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the prospective, longitudinal relations among childhood poverty and rural adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors, and the mediational roles of adolescent attachment to...
Background/Objectives: Early attachment experiences and psychopathology both shape individuals’ emotion processing. However, the specific influence of adult attachment representations on self- (intrapersonal) and other-focused (interpersonal) e...
12 November 2015
The positive relationships between urban green space and health have been well documented. Little is known, however, about the role of residents’ emotional attachment to local green spaces in these relationships, and how attachment to green spaces an...
Background and Objectives: While associations between attachment styles and certain dermatologic conditions have been documented, their role in chronic pruritus remains unexplored. Given the significant psychosomatic component in the etiology of chro...
Background and Objectives: The attachment-diathesis model of chronic pain, which associates insecure attachment with pain catastrophizing and worse pain-related outcomes, is well-supported in adults. Although Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders (FAPD...
Background/Objectives: School bullying is a significant issue that negatively impacts children’s well-being, emphasizing the need to identify family-related factors contributing to bullying victimization. This study explored the potential link...
Background: Attachment to parents during adolescence has been identified as an important indicator of psychosocial adaptation. However, the relative importance of the adolescents’ behavior problems and the larger relational context likely to influenc...
A World Heritage Site is a masterpiece of mankind and/or nature that possesses outstanding universal value (OUV). In this regard, the 5Cs strategic objectives (credibility, communication, capacity-building, conservation, and community) set by the Wor...
Background/Objectives: The introduction of composite attachments has greatly improved orthodontic aligner therapy, through better force delivery, more predictable movements, and enhanced retention. This in vitro study aims to present and investigate...
2 May 2020
The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of attachment style and emotional security in the family system on suicidal ideation in a sample of young adult female victims of child sexual abuse (CSA). The possible effects of CSA characteris...
Background/Objectives: Early parent–child attachment interactions guided by right-to-right brain synchrony are the foundation of emotional development and the quality of attachment relationships. Interactive failures are the hallmark of not onl...
Flexible tactile sensors are required to maintain conformal contact with target objects and to differentiate different tactile stimuli such as strain and pressure to achieve high sensing performance. However, many existing tactile sensors do not have...
Background/Objectives: Emotion processing has increasingly been conceptualized as a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying psychological adaptation and psychopathology. From an attachment perspective, individual differences in emotion perception may be...
This paper examines the concept of land attachment—a positive emotional relationship between a resettled farmer and his or her rural land—in the context of China’s rapid urbanization and the resultant huge number of resettled and la...
Objective: This study examined the relationships between father-related attachment and parenting variables and peer bullying among adolescent girls. Secure and insecure attachment styles, paternal caregiving styles, paternal autonomy support, and pat...
In the process of mussel farming, the rope for attachment is indispensable, as it provides a stable attachment environment for mussel seedlings, directly affecting their survival rate and growth quality. The objective of this study is to examine the...
In the course of rural spatial transformation in China, the vicissitudes of the traditional built environment have given rise to the deconstruction of locality, whereas place attachment emerges as the crux for addressing this issue. Considering that...
Previous evidence has demonstrated a relationship between insecure attachment and the development of emotional dependence towards an individual’s partner. However, the possibility that this relationship may be indirect and mediated by individua...
Background/Objectives: This study aims to describe in detail the previously reported close relationship between the anterolateral ligament (ALL) and the lateral meniscus. Few previous studies identified and characterized this relation. This study fur...
Background/Objectives: The opioid epidemic and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are two major concerns for child welfare systems. Little is known, however, regarding the mechanisms that perpetuate intergenerational cycles of ACEs and insecure/dis...
Background/Objectives: Although the benefits of breastfeeding on the development and health of the infant are well known, the relationship between breastfeeding, oral health and attachment style or emotional bonding is not fully known. This research...
Humans show neural specificity in processing animal-related information, especially regarding companion animals. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study’s main objective is to investigate human neural s...
Aim: The objective of this research has been to apply a specific simulation to a patient to assess the biomechanical consequences of rotating an upper canine tooth through different attachment–aligner configurations and to predict the most effi...
Although the relationship between attachment and mental health has been widely studied, no systematic review has focused specifically on refugee populations. Objectives: This systematic review examines associations between attachment patterns and psy...
Background and Objectives: Loneliness is prevalent among residents of long-term care settings, posing significant challenges to their mental wellbeing. Insecure attachment has been identified as a contributing factor to loneliness in this population....
Background/Objectives: Pediatric migraine is a prevalent and disabling condition often accompanied by functional somatic symptoms and emotional dysregulation. Emerging evidence suggests that autonomic imbalance and insecure attachment patterns may bo...
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