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Adult Attachment Styles And Their Correlation With Marital Adjustment And Divorce, Cheryl Jones

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

The theory of attachment is a fairly recent approach to studying the relationship between romantic partners. Attachment theory was originally studied to explain the needs and behaviors between infants and their primary caregivers. The attachment style that infants have with their primary caregiver characterizes them throughout their entire lives. Three different styles of attachment have been described: secure, avoidant, and ambivalent. Secure individuals find it easy to get close to others. Avoidant individuals are nervous when people get too close. Ambivalent individuals want to get very close to others and are fearful of abandonment.

Various research studies suggest that attachment …

The Social Network And Attachment Bases Of Loneliness, David M. Ouellette

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis tests Robert S. Weiss's 1973 theory of loneliness, which claims two types of loneliness: emotional and social. Emotional loneliness is the affective reaction to the absence of a close attachment bond. Social loneliness stems from inadequate integration into a social network. Undergraduate residents of a university dormitory completed questionnaires on loneliness, attachment, personality, and relationships with other dorm residents. Patterns of relational ties among participants were evaluated using social network analysis, specifically density, tie strength, and four forms of centrality. Results reveal that, while controlling for neuroticism, the network measure of outdegree and the two attachment dimensions accounted …

The Importance Of Cmos Sensor Surface Topography In The Attachment, Proliferation, And Differentiation Of Human Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Christa Y. Heyward

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Osteoblasts and osteoblast precursor cells (mesenchymal stem cells) respond to the surface topography of metal implants by aligning along surface features in order to minimize shear stress. While several previous studies have investigated the morphology, attachment and proliferation of both osteoblasts and mesenchymal stem cells along grooved surfaces, the current study investigates the cellular response to depressions and peaks in surface topography, as well as surfaces that contain alternating combinations of depressions and peaks. The Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sensor is a transducer fabricated from silicon and sputter coated with titanium. The CMOS sensor is designed to utilize piezoresistive …