Object Attachment
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Investigating the role of attachment in social comparison theories of eating disorders within a non-clinical female population.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The present study aimed to integrate attachment theory and sociocultural theory as predictors of disordered eating, thereby combining two previously distinct literatures in order to provide a more comprehensive model of eating disorder ... Read more...

Developmental context effects on bicultural posttrauma self repair in chimpanzees.

30 Aug 2009 Longitudinal studies have shown how early developmental contexts contribute significantly to self-development; their influence extends through adulthood, informs sociality, and affects resilience under severe stress. While the importance of ... Read more...

Adolescent place attachment, social capital, and perceived safety: a comparison of 13 countries.

30 Aug 2009 In adolescence, children become increasingly independent and autonomous, and spend more time in neighborhood settings away from home. During mid-to-late adolescence, youth often become more critical about the place they live. Their attachment to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Object Attachment'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Torture and attachment: conscience and the analyst's world-seeing eye. 29 Sep 2009
• "Psychoanalysis and the unconscious" and D.W. Winnicott's transitional and related phenomena. 29 Sep 2009
• Investigating the role of attachment in social comparison theories of eating disorders within a non-clinical female population. 30 Aug 2009
• Developmental context effects on bicultural posttrauma self repair in chimpanzees. 30 Aug 2009
• Adolescent place attachment, social capital, and perceived safety: a comparison of 13 countries. 30 Aug 2009
• [Chronically ill, a lifelong responsibility, viewed from 3 different perspectives. Basal stimulation in nursing chronically ill children (3)] 30 Aug 2009
• [Play: the foundation of life. Child play as the motor of personality development] 30 Aug 2009
• Down or up? Explaining positive and negative emotions in parents of children with Down's syndrome: Goals, cognitive coping, and resources. 30 Aug 2009
• Stress and reactivity to daily relationship experiences: How stress hinders adaptive processes in marriage. 30 Aug 2009
• Bonding with a dialysis patient in the Bronx. 30 Aug 2009
• Mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Pet dogs as attachment figures for adult owners. 30 Jul 2009
• [Renal transplanted adolescents' perception of the relationship to the interdisciplinary health care team] 30 Jul 2009
• Parental self-efficacy and stress-related growth in the transition to parenthood: a comparison between parents of pre- and full-term babies. 30 Jul 2009
• Longing for the disappointing object and dreading its return. 30 Jul 2009
• Does early care affect joint attention in great apes (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Pongo abelii, Pongo pygmaeus, Gorilla gorilla)? 30 Jul 2009
• An evaluation of the benefits of non-nutritive sucking for premature infants as described in the literature. 30 Jul 2009
• Behavioural and neurobiological effects of colostrum ingestion in the newborn lamb associated with filial bonding. 29 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009
• On the rebound: focusing on someone new helps anxiously attached individuals let go of ex-partners. 20 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Object Attachment'

Definition: Emotional attachment to someone or something in the environment.

Descriptor UI: D009769

Alternative terms: Object Attachment; Attachment, Object; Attachments, Object; Object Attachments; Bonding, Psychological; Psychological Bonding; Bonding (Psychology); Bondings (Psychology); Object Relationship; Object Relationships; Relationship, Object; Relationships, Object; Symbiotic Relations (Psychology); Relation, Symbiotic (Psychology); Relations, Symbiotic (Psychology); Symbiotic Relation (Psychology); Emotional Bonds; Bond, Emotional; Emotional Bond; Bonds, Emotional; Object Relations; Object Relation; Relation, Object; Relations, Object;

Tree Number: F02.739.794.624;

History Note: 69