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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Affectionate"”.
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Affectionate expression in marriage: An ethnocultural and socioeconomic comparison
… the lived experience of married couples with affectionate communication, this qualitative, phenomenological study employed a triangulation of data collection methods, including a questionnaire, face-to-face interviews, and two specific observational activities; a game and musical exercise to …
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Mother-newborn EEG connectivity during affectionate touch and impact of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
… and their newborn babies communicate is through affectionate physical touch—skin-to-skin care and gentle stroking—which is crucial for the mother-infant relationship and for infant neurodevelopment across the lifespan. Very little is known, however, about how mothers’ and newborn babies’ brains …
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Correlates of affectionate and angry behaviour in day care educators of preschool-aged children
… (Scarr, 1984). Based on the presumption that affectionate and angry behaviours on the part of daycare educators would have major implications for the development of the children for whom they care, the aim of the present investigation was to provide the groundwork for identifying what factors …
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Being “in Touch”: The Role of Daily Empathic Accuracy and Affectionate Touch Fulfillment in Shaping Well-Being
The receipt of affectionate touch from a relationship partner has been found to influence one's social, personal, and physical well-being. However, simply receiving a hug or a kiss from a spouse may not be enough, as recent research suggests that the benefits of affectionate touch may only be …
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Examining the effects of affectionate touch and active engagement in the relationship between positive interactions and emotional outcomes.
Objective: This study aimed to 1) examine whether affectionate touch explains unique variance in emotional outcomes, such as emotion regulation and positive affect, beyond general positive interactions; 2) investigate whether active engagement moderates the relationship between positive …
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Social Support and Affectionate Communication in Animal-Assisted Interventions: Toward a Typology and Rating Scheme of Handler/Dog Messages
… the theoretical frameworks of social support and affectionate communication. Two methods of data collection - interviews and observations - were employed to uncover the supportive and affectionate behaviors that occur in AAIs from a handler's perspective. Participants were primarily female, …
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What sexuality? : An exploratory study examining sexual activity and affectionate sexual expression in a Western Australian sample of older adults
… other forms of sexual expression, specifically affectionate sexual expression that are relevant to older adults. The present day study explores what affectionate sexual behaviours constitute affectionate sexual expression and compares sexual intercourse with affectionate expression. The sample …
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"Your Most Affectionate Good Sister": Rhetoric, Diplomacy and Self-Presentation in the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
This research essay examines letters of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, showing her as an accomplished rhetorician. Mary's letters have gone largely unexamined by scholars, despite the new interest in the writing of women in the early modern period. On her letters she used appeals to kinship, …
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Sexuality Workplace Issues Among Direct Service Personnel Working With Populations Who Are Intellectually Disabled In Community Integrated Living Arrangements: A Case Study
… perceptions in regards to types of sexual and affectionate behaviors exhibited by intellectually disabled adults in their care in the CILA setting. The study focused on analyzing these topics in relation to sexuality/affectionate behaviors experienced in the CILA workplace using a qualitative …
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Love me true : deception, affection, and evolutionary strategies of human mating
… experience, particularly in close relationships. Affectionate messages may take on many forms, both those that are genuine and those that are deceptive in nature. A deceptive affectionate message is defined in this study as the intentional communication of a positively-valenced message, in which …
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Coping With the Educational Disadvantages of Children in Public Care: Substitute Caregivers' Educational Expectations and Involvement
… In addition, the findings highlighted the affectionate relationship between substitute caregivers and children as a major factor influencing children's education.
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Group Friendship Activities to Promote Peer Interactions of Children With Developmental Delays From Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
… reported that children enjoyed the positive affectionate behaviors with games and songs. Future research directions and implications for implementing culturally sensitive interventions for children with developmental delays from CLDF are discussed.
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Masculine Gender Role Conflict and Psychological Well- Being: A Comparative Study of Heterosexual and Gay Men
… family, restrictive emotionality, restrictive affectionate behavior between men, and success, power, and competition) and five factors of psychological well-being (anger, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and attitudes toward seeking psychological help). Findings for the heterosexual men were …
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Characteristics of Perceived Social Networks of Middle-Aged and Older Kenyan Women with and without HIV: A Multilevel Modeling Study
… lower levels of emotional, financial, and affectionate support compared to their HIV-negative counterparts. In exploratory analysis with recruitment source as the primary predictor, Mombasa Cohort women reported lower levels of emotional support, and had higher odds of having non-daily …
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Sibling relationships in Shakespeare's plays : course, quality, and function
… are politically supportive, personally affectionate, and constructively critical; and function in the background as the cement of society and as foils to rival characters. Although the sisters in all five sororal relationships disagree about a husband and/or father, they have more …
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Saisie conservatoire and the Admiralty action in rem: estranged cousins: a comparative analysis between South African and French Admiralty law
… towards their property: they give them affectionate names, personalities (in English grammar, 'ship' is the only word having a gender), a statute, an object needing protection: She becomes the apple of their eye. Even if today, the dimension of our world, the Globalisation of our trade, …
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A Study on the Relationships Among Smartphone Addiction, Parenting Attitudes, Parenting Efficacy, and Parenting Behaviors of Mothers with Infants and Young Children
… of parenting attitudes, the score for affectionate attitudes was highest with 4.00±0.43 out of 5 point, followed by autonomous attitudes with 3.45±0.35, controlling attitudes with 3.34±0.38, rejective attitudes with 2.58±0.48. The mean score of parenting efficacy was 3.51±0.40, out of 5 …
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Linguagens afetuosas na dança: ações emancipatórias na formação docente
… this thesis presents the hypothesis that affectionate communicational approaches in learning-teaching relationships (Freire, 1996) work towards building conditions for the emancipation of students. It points to the importance of establishing relationships between dance, affection and …
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Broadway noir: Film noir and musical comedy in City of Angels (1989)
… comedy and thereby subjects both genres to affectionate satire. This essay explores the connections between these idiosyncratic forms of entertainment, particularly in the ways that noir devices and tropes emerge from songs penned by Cy Coleman and David Zippel, to reach a greater …
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Asian American Men and Fatherhood: Relationship between Acculturation, Gender-Role Conflict, Parenting Self-Efficacy, and Father Involvement
… the relationship between restrictive affectionate behavior toward men and father involvement was in the expected direction of the hypothesis, although it was not statistically significant. Finally, parenting self-efficacy was significantly and positively associated with father …
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