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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Physical affection"”.
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Not now, I am too stressed : stress and physical intimacy in early marriage
… with couples’ likelihood of engaging in physical intimacy. The current study considered whether individuals’ stress must reach a critical threshold before hindering couples’ sexual activity and physical affection. Couples completed two 14-day daily diary tasks during the early years of …
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The Relations Among Culture, Parental Socialization of Emotions, and Alexithymia
… parents, AA parents were less likely to display physical affection and to verbalize positive emotions. There was a weak trend for AA parents to use more avoidance in unpleasant situations relative to EA parents. PSE was also associated with alexithymia. The most important finding was that PSE …
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Touchy-Feely, Gross Stuff
Physical affection and visible emotion were not the way of my family. Compassion, concern, judgment, really any sentiment was expressed almost exclusively verbally while I was growing up. To me this very normal, and as an only child, I did not have much to compare it to until I started school. It …
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Meaning and process in early adolescent friendship conversations
… solving, asking for advice, and displaying physical affection are examples of these means. Self-representations from the conversations were not always consistent with those revealed during self-confrontation interviews, at times in the service of achieving friendship goals. …
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Parent Behaviors as Predictors of Peer Acceptance in Children With and Without Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… positive comments about the child or giving physical affection to the child during parent-child interactions did not predict children's peer acceptance. Negative parenting behaviors showed trends toward significance in predicting lower level's of child-reported peer acceptance in both …
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How sweet it is to be loved by you: Examining the psychometric properties of a novel tool for assessing parent-to-child warmth and affection (Warmth/Affection Coding System)
Parental warmth/affection (e.g., terms of endearment, physical affection) is an essential component of healthy, securely attached parent-child relationships. Strong parent-child relationships serve as buffers against psychosocial stressors and facilitate healthy empathy development in children. In …
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'Home is where the heart is': everyday geographies of young heterosexual couples' love in and of homes
… language of love; the expressions and spaces of physical affection and intimacy; and the presence of corporeal and domestic dirt. Focusing on the second scale – dwelling – allows for an understanding of the ways in which discourses of love are mapped on to specific materialities of home. Issues …
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Family Systems Variables as Predictors of Eating Styles and Body Mass Index
… avoidance, and eating in response to a lack of physical affection. Restrained eating was not found to be significantly related to any family or childhood feeding variable. Emotional eating, external eating, and binge eating were all significantly negatively correlated with intergenerational …