scholarly journals Nightmare experience and family relationships in healthy volunteers and nightmare disorder patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chu Wang ◽  
Xu Shao ◽  
Yanli Jia ◽  
Chanchan Shen ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Physical Effect ◽  
The Family ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Nightmare Disorder ◽  
Meaning Interpretation ◽  
Experience Questionnaire

Abstract Background Nightmares are associated with parental bonding styles and various psychiatric disorders, but the exact connections between different nightmare experience features and family relationships in healthy volunteers and nightmare disorder patients are still unclear. Methods We therefore invited 62 nightmare disorder patients and 135 healthy volunteers to undergo tests of the Nightmare Experience Questionnaire (NEQ), the Family Relationship Questionnaire (FRQ), and the Plutchik - van Praag Depression Inventory (PVP). Results Besides the higher nightmare frequency and the higher PVP and four NEQ scale scores, the nightmare disorder patients had higher scores of FRQ Paternal Abuse, and lower ones of General Attachment, Maternal Encouragement, Maternal Freedom Release, and Paternal Freedom Release. The PVP was correlated with some NEQ and FRQ scales in both healthy volunteers and patients, and it functioned as a mediator between Physical Effect and Maternal Dominance in patients. Regarding predicting NEQ by FRQ, Paternal Abuse predicted Physical Effect, Maternal Dominance predicted Physical Effect and Horrible Stimulation, General Attachment predicted Horrible Stimulation (−) in healthy volunteers; Maternal Dominance predicted Physical Effect, Meaning Interpretation, and Horrible Stimulation, Paternal Freedom Release predicted Physical Effect (−), and Paternal Dominance predicted Meaning Interpretation and nightmare frequency in patients. Conclusions Our study has demonstrated that the inappropriate family relationships were linked with different aspects of nightmare experience, especially in nightmare disorder patients.

Nightmare experience and personality disorder functioning styles in healthy volunteers and nightmare disorder patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-294
Author(s):  
Xu Shao ◽  
Chu Wang ◽  
Chanchan Shen ◽  
Yanli Jia ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Personality Measure ◽  
Personality Adjustment ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Nightmare Disorder ◽  
Meaning Interpretation ◽  
Experience Questionnaire

Nightmares are prevalent in psychiatric disorders, and personality disorder features might be associated with nightmare experience, especially in nightmare disorder patients. The authors invited 219 healthy volunteers and 118 nightmare disorder patients to undergo tests of the Nightmare Experience Questionnaire (NEQ), the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), and the Plutchik-van Praag Depression Inventory. Compared to healthy volunteers, nightmare disorder patients scored significantly higher on annual nightmare frequency and NEQ Physical Effect, Negative Emotion, Meaning Interpretation, and Horrible Stimulation, and higher on PERM Paranoid, Schizotypal, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Avoidant, and Dependent styles. Borderline, Schizotypal, and Passive-Aggressive styles in healthy volunteers and Dependent, Avoidant, Histrionic, and Paranoid in patients were significant predictors of some NEQ scales. Higher annual nightmare frequency, higher scale scores of nightmare experience and personality disorder styles, and more associations between the two were found in nightmare disorder patients, implying the need for personality-adjustment therapy for nightmare disorder.

COMMON OWNERSHIP OF SPOUSES (Analysis of the Georgian Civil Law)

Law and World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-177
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
Common Ownership ◽  
Personal Rights ◽  
The Family ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Legal Fact

The research shows that one of the legal relations in civil matters is the family relationship, having an extensive content. It includes Family Law and the actual family relationships. While there are factual elements in the family relationships, only marriage registration gives rise to the property and personal rights between spouses since marriage is a legal fact of law. However, it has been stated correctly in the legal literature that the actual co-existence of partners is such a family relationship, in which couples enter into marriage without registration. The inner world of unmarried couples is significantly free from legal regulation. Family relationships, by their characteristics, are inconceivable without the personal and intimate aspects contained in certain factual foundations and found in family relationships.

Winner of the SLS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 2015: Towards an understanding of the basis of obligation and commitment in family law

Legal Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Legal Consequences

Much family law scholarship in recent years has been focused on the recognition of different types of family relationship. Often, the rationale for the grant of rights and duties to new forms of relationship is said to be because the parties have shown commitment, or the same degree of commitment, as those in formally recognised unions, such as marriage. But there has been relatively little consideration of why or how commitment can provide an adequate rationale for the imposition of legal consequences, in particular, legal obligations, especially when such commitment may be lacking on the part of one of the parties, or comes to an end. This paper explores the meanings of obligation and commitment within the family and questions whether commitment provides a necessary or sufficient justification for the imposition of legal obligations in family relationships.

scholarly journals Family relationships in the social network for young male homosexuals

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadynne Pastoriza dos Santos ◽  
Paula Daniella de Abreu ◽  
Ednaldo Cavalcante de Araújo ◽  
Natália Oliveira de Freitas ◽  
Hulda Vale de Araújo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Male Homosexuals

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the family relationships in the social network for young male homosexuals. Methods: this is a qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study anchored in the theoretical framework Social Network and including 20 male homosexuals selected by the Snowball technique through semi-structured script interview. The IRaMuTeQ software was analyzed by Similitude Analysis. Results: the primary social network was configured in the elements: 1 – Family affective ties: the center of the social network, 2 - Binding family relationship and religiosity. Final considerations: it was evaluated that the primary social network has been rooted to fragile relationships of socialization and solidarity, and that the social dimension is also rooted on conservatism, sexism/bigotry, and violence. When it comes to address this issue creates the contribution to the visibility of the homosexual youth family dynamics, since it represents the central core and first learning experience that will determine the development and ability to deal with adversities.

scholarly journals Influence of Major Public Health Emergencies on Family Relationship and Humanistic Geographical Characteristics of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 3879
Author(s):  
Xiaojia Guo ◽  
Jingzhong Li ◽  
Yexin Gao ◽  
Fang Su ◽  
Bing Xue
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Public Events ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

Harmonious and stable family relations are undoubtedly an important component of victory in terms of epidemic prevention. Take the COVID-2019 (2019 new crown pneumonia epidemic) as the major public events background; 24,188 national samples were obtained based on a network survey. We selected gender, education level, occupation type, family scale, neighborhood relationship and psychological state as independent variables, and adopted multiple logistic models to assess the impact of major public events on family relationships and the characteristics of humanistic–regional attributes. The findings are as follows: (1) During the epidemic period, major public health emergencies effectively promoted the national residents’ family relationships. (2) The family relationships of national residents presented a high level in central China and a low level in the border areas of China, which is consistent with the spread of COVID-2019 in January and February. (3) Family relationship level averages between 2.201~2.507 among different groups when divided by occupation, age and education. The family relationship has improved, but the change is not drastic and the gap between various groups is not significant, so there is essentially no difference. (4) The impact of major public health emergencies on all families is nearly sudden and instant, so that family relationship changes are often also abrupt. (5) Educational level, family size and gender have a positive effect on the change in family relations, but this effect is weakened as family education level increases; while the anxiety of the interviewees and the neighborhood had a negative effect on the change in family relationship, this indicates that the better the neighborhood relations are, the more harmonious a family relationship is. The above research can provide an important scientific support and decision-making basis for the government to carry out community prevention work, respond to major public health emergencies and construct a family support social policy system in the future.

scholarly journals Family Relationships, Personality Disorder Functioning Styles and Emotional States in Generalized Anxiety and Major Depressive Disorders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenghe YU ◽  
You Xu ◽  
Qisha ZHU ◽  
Hongjing MAO ◽  
Bingren ZHANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Scale Scores

Abstract Objective: Family relationship affects personality development and emotional regulation, which might be more pronounced in generalized anxiety (GAD) and major depressive (MD) disorders. Method: Thirty patients with GAD, 31 MD, and 32 healthy volunteers answered the Family Relationship Questionnaire (FRQ), the Parker Personality Measure (PERM), and the Hamilton Anxiety and Depression Rating Scales. Results: Compared to healthy controls, both patient groups scored higher on FRQ Paternal Abuse and Paternal Dominance, and lower on Maternal Freedom Release; GAD in addition scored lower on Maternal Abuse and Maternal Dominance. All PERM scale scores except Narcissistic were higher in MD than those in GAD, and all scale scores except Schizotypal and Narcissistic were higher in MD than in controls. Maternal Encouragement was associated with the Paranoid and Schizotypal styles, and Maternal Freedom Release the Avoidant and Borderline in GAD; and Maternal Encouragement the Paranoid, Paternal Dominance the Avoidant, Paternal Freedom Release (-) and Maternal Freedom Release the anxiety, and the Dependent the depression in MD. Conclusions: Our study demonstrates different associations between family relationships and personality traits/ emotional states in MD and GAD, suggesting different forms of family therapy for the two disorders.

scholarly journals Elder family financial exploitation: Family relationships are never the same

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 770-771
Author(s):  
Athena Chung Yin Chan ◽  
Marlene Stum
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Systems Perspective ◽  
Relationship Themes ◽  
Financial Exploitation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Millions of families are affected by elder family financial exploitation (EFFE), but the consequences for lifelong intergenerational family relationships and family functioning remain largely unexamined (i.e., parent/child, siblings). This study examines the consequences of experiencing EFFE on the quality of family relationships from the perspective of non-victim, non-perpetrator concerned family members (CFMs). Data from a larger EFFE mixed-methods study were utilized. A voluntary sample of 28 CFMs who had experienced EFFE participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews and brief surveys. Analysis included identifying quality of family relationship themes from data related to differences EFFE has made in their family. Participating CFMs were primarily adult children of older victims, and siblings of the primary perpetrators. The findings reflect three patterns of changes in quality of family relationships between the CFMs and other family members, including: (a) Restoring trust and recovery within the family, (b) Alliances and taking sides, and (c) Estrangement and cutoff. While families were never the same after experiencing the exploitation, for some was a healing process to accept the family situation and restore and repair trust. Redefining who would be family moving forward was a focus for some families when perpetrators and CFMs took sides and formed allies with others. In the most dramatic changes, siblings, parents and others became cutoff and isolated from other family members. While a loss of relationship quality was common, strengthening of relationships also occurred. Understanding EFFE from an ecological family systems perspective can help to inform needed EFFE interventions, both processes and outcomes.

scholarly journals Gender aspects of gaslighting as a form of psychological violence in the family

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-151
Author(s):  
A.I. Rudenok ◽  
◽  
O.V. Petyak ◽  
O.B. Igumnova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Aspects ◽  
Marital Partners ◽  
Verbal Insults ◽  
Practical Recommendations

The article reveals the problem of psychological violence in the family and considers the gender aspects of the manipulative phenomenon of gaslighting. Manipulations are aimed at forcing other people to perform exactly the actions that the manipulator needs. These actions lead to certain consequences that the manipulator wants to get in accordance with his motives. In a family relationship, the gaslight partner does not care what the victim partner wants and aspires to. It is important to him that others obey. Because the victim partner does not always agree to submit to this pressure, the gaslighter uses manipulation to indirectly influence the motivation, decisions and actions of the victim partner. Manipulative techniques are often veiled in such a way that the victim cannot understand the harmful effects that the partner has on him. The aim of the study was to study the concept of “gaslighting” in the environment of interpersonal relationships of marital partners; studies of gender features of gaslighting; identification of verbal and nonverbal means of manipulation characteristic of a gaslighter; development of practical recommendations on ways to counteract the gaslighter. The results of our study showed that destructive statements to victim partners characterize the specifics of gaslighting as a kind of psychological, emotional violence in family relationships. Women are more told about their mental illness, inferiority, humiliation, success. Men in their address more often hear from partners statements about the wrong perception of reality. The most common manifestations of gaslighting in the family relationships of respondents are: humiliation of the person by the partner, devaluation of feelings and the importance of important events, as well as the transfer of responsibility to the partner. Regarding the manipulative actions used by gaslight partners towards the respondents, we highlighted accusations from partners, ignoring feelings, verbal insults and rejection of the lifestyle of partner victims. The key strategies for resolving family conflicts that respondents use are rivalries and adaptations. In general, based on the results, we found that there is no gender variation in the use of gaslighting by marital partners in family relationships – since both women and men are equally faced with the manifestations of this phenomenon in the family Key words: gaslighting, manipulator, gaslighter partner, victim partner, psychological violence, family relations.

scholarly journals A Descriptive Study to Assess the Association of Social Media Usage on Family Relationship among Student Nurses in Selected College of Nursing in Delhi

2021 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Suchhanda Bhattacharya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Linear Correlation ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Family ◽  
College Of Nursing ◽  
Relationship Of

Introduction: Social media sites have become the most popular mode in recent years to communicate with people and share interests and likes with others. One of the many influences of social media is change in family relationships resulting from a decline in quality time spent with the family especially among youths including students. So the objective of the present study was to assess the effect of social media usage on family relationship. Method: A descriptive survey was conducted on 124 student nurses studying at Rufaida College of Nursing, selected by purposive sampling technique. Structured rating scale and Brief Family Relationship Scale were used to assess social media usage and family relationships of student nurses on three parameters, expressiveness, cohesion, and conflicts. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Linear correlation was used to find the correlation between social media usage and family relationship. Result: The assessment of family relationships indicated maximum expressiveness among families of 76 students, maximum cohesion among families of 115 students, and moderate conflicts among families of 58 students. In the linear correlation, there is a direct relationship of cohesion and expressiveness in the family and social media usage and inverse relationship of conflict within the family and social media usage. Conclusion: There seems to be a direct correlation between social media usage and expressiveness and cohesion within the family and an inverse relationship between conflict and social media usage in the family.

scholarly journals Improvement of Family Relationships as a Social Duty

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Nayeb Kabir
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Family ◽  
Library Studies ◽  
The Status ◽  
Healthy Family ◽  
Formation And Evolution

The present research is aimed to study the improvement of family relationships as a social duty. To achieve this goal, the descriptive-analytical method was used. Family relationship is one of the most important factors whose negative effects on society can be investigated and studied. Family is one of the most fundamental institutions of any society about which many experts and specialists have thought and speculated. These experts have searched for the origin of all abnormalities and misbehaviors in the family. In fact, no society can claim health unless it enjoys a healthy family. The present research is a theoretical research based on library studies. It attempts to study the status of family relationships in Iran, the factors affecting the formation and evolution of family relationships, the effect of progress and modernization on family relationships, and the causes of family relationships looseness.

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