Marital Relationships and Parenting: Intimate relations and their correlates

Ami Rokach is a Clinical Psychologist who combines treating individuals and couples with university teaching, and research, based at York University, Toronto, Canada. His areas of interest and expertise include loneliness, marital and sex therapy, anxiety and depression reduction, and helping patients and people in general acquire the tools to develop and enjoy intimate relationships.

Introduction Part I: Marital and Intimate Relations 1. Intimacy Behaviors and Relationship Satisfaction for Cohabitors: Intimate Sacrifices Are Not Always Beneficial 2. Adult Attachment and Dyadic Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Shame 3. Humor Use in Romantic Relationships: The Effects of Relationship Satisfaction and Pleasant Versus Conflict Situations 4. Empathy and Social Support Provision in Couples: Social Support and the Need to Study the Underlying Processes 5. Adult Attachment Styles and Psychological Disease: Examining the Mediating Role of Personality Traits 6. How Does Culture Influence the Degree of Romantic Loneliness and Closeness? Part II: Parents, children, support and intimacy 7. Marriage Matters But How Much? Marital Centrality Among Young Adults 8. Parental Attachment and Adolescents’ Perception of School Alienation: The Mediation Role of Self-Esteem and Adjustment 9. Young Adult Sibling Relations: The Effects of Perceived Parental Favoritism and Narcissism 10. Perceived Parenting and Separation-Individuation in Belgian College Students: Associations with Emotional Adjustment 11. Parental Support and Adolescent Motivation for Dieting: The Self-Determination Theory Perspective 12. The Effect of Attachment Insecurity in the Development of Eating Disturbances across Gender: The Role of Body Dissatisfaction 13. Children’s Loneliness, Sense of Coherence, Family Climate, and Hope: Developmental Risk and Protective Factors