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The theory of attachment brought to front stage the need of the child to form stableconnections with persons capable to offer protection, love, acceptance. Sometimes,during this process, the child has give up parts of his/her authentic self in a lenghtyprocess of adapting to the harsh reality he/she lives in. The pattern of attachment,formed in early childhood, relative to the representative persons in his/her life, tends tobe maintained also during the lifetime and to influence the manner of interacting withother...

The study of child growth has been and still is the object of attention and analysis byexperts in psychological theories and beyond. The first to describe childhooddevelopment was S. Freud, to which other scholars have joined such as Erikson,Winnicott, Spitz, Bowlby, A. Freud, M. Klein, Piaget (for intelligence), Vygotskij (fordevelopment cognitive), Chomsky (for language) and, among the pedagogists, as wellas Montessori, Pati. The latter, from a mere pedagogical point of view, was interested inthe growth levels o...

Becoming a psychologist requires more than just acquiring the necessary competences.The emotional labour undergone when preparing for this job may be higher than in anyother specialty as it mainly requires one to solve their own personal issues beforehelping others deal with their own so as to dispute the counter-transfer. Allpsychotherapy schools start with at least one year of personal development. Knowing allthese, there is a large number of students enrolled in Psychology study programmes whostart their univer...

The objective of this study is to examine the interactive effect of risk-taking propensityand previous emigration experience on the emigration attitudes of young Bulgarians.The relationship between risk-taking propensity and emigration attitudes has not beenexplored in the prism of prior emigration behavior in Eastern European countries likeBulgaria - a sending rather than receiving country. Additionally, risk propensity isexamined as both a generic and domain-specific construct. A national survey,representative o...

The main purpose of this correlation study is to examine the relationship of attachmentstyles with life satisfaction and place attachment in university students at University ofCatania, Italy. We used the following measures: the State Adult Attachment Measure,the Life Satisfaction Scale, and two versions of the Place Attachment Inventory for the“living place” and for the “affective place”, respectively. Results indicated that: 1) themore the students showed secure attachment and the less avoidant attachmen...

The objective of the study is to identify the differences between the use of social copingmethods used by adults, determined by the presence of verbal abuse until the age ofeighteen, and the presence of an alcoholic parent during childhood and adolescence.The instruments used in the research were: The SACS Strategic Coping Scale, constructedby Stevan E. Hobfoll, Carla L. Dunahoo, Jeannine Monnier, Michael R. Hulsizer, andRobert Johnson in 1993 and revised in 1998, and the ACE (Adverse ChildhoodExperiences) .The re...

The principal purpose of the study is to analyze the role of coping strategies in lifesatisfaction, resilience, and perceived self-efficacy in life skills in 89 Italian adolescentsduring the post pandemic by Covid-19. We used the self-report and anonymousquestionnaire consisting of the following scales: a) Perceived Self-efficacy in Life SkillsScale; b) Satisfaction with Life Scale; c) Resilience Scale for Adolescents; d) CopingInventory for Stressful Situation. Results showed that: task-oriented coping strategypo...