Based on theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence, the present study examined the unique and shared effects of attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, and acculturation on attitudes toward seeking professional help among Latino college students. The research participants included 149 bilingual Latino college students from a large, public southwestern university. Results of a multiple regression analysis indicated that attachment avoidance was positively associated with both the recognition of need for psychological help and stigma of seeking professional help. Acculturation to American society was found to be statistically insignificant in predicting help-seeking attitudes in this sample of the population. Findings from exploratory questions suggested that Latino individuals would most likely seek help from parents, close friends, and then professionals. This study suggested that Latino individuals with high attachment avoidance acknowledge the potential benefit of professional help-seeking but distrust the process of approaching others for help. Limitations, implications, and future research directions will be discussed.

Measures of adult attachment developed in English have been translated and validated in multiple Spanish-speaking countries, yet to this date no self-report adult attachment instrument has been systematically examined for validation with Latinos/Hispanic Americans. The present study examined psychometric properties of a Spanish version of a widely used adult attachment scale, the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECRS), with a bilingual college student sample. Following the dual-language split half (DLSH) quantitative method of evaluating semantic equivalence, 209 bilingual, Latinos/Hispanic American college students recruited from a large public university completed a DLSH version of the ECRS (half English, half Spanish). Internal consistency reliability and DLSH reliability were within acceptable limits, although significantly smaller than coefficients of the English ECRS completed by a large Caucasian sample (n = 459); 3- to 8-week test-retest reliability was also adequate. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor solution with 35 items accounting for 40% of the variance, which was similar to the English ECRS. Convergent validity was supported by findings that showed significant associations of attachment dimensions with social self-efficacy, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and comfort with self-disclosure, but not interpersonal trust. Evidence for discriminant validity was found in that attachment dimensions were not significantly associated with social desirability. Theoretical implications, limitations, and future directions of the study will be discussed based on adult attachment theory and cross-cultural perspectives.

The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between masculine gender role conflict, attachment variables, narcissism, and adjustment. It was expected that men who reported higher masculine gender role conflict would also report unhealthy attachment, have a greater degree of narcissism and poorer adjustment. This study employed a sample of undergraduate males who completed self-report questionnaires measuring masculine gender role conflict, narcissism, adjustment, and attachment. Hypotheses were tested using canonical correlation techniques. Results indicated that healthy attachment was related to low masculine gender role conflict; however, unhealthy attachment was not related to high masculine gender role conflict. In terms of narcissism, higher amounts of narcissism were related to high amounts of gender role conflict, but in a subset of results individuals who reported low masculine gender role conflict also reported higher narcissism in areas that are assumed to relate to positive self regard. Results related to adjustment indicated that high masculine gender role conflict was related to less psychological well-being replicating past studies. Theoretical and methodological issues were discussed in light of these findings.

Um dos objetivos das próximas gerações dos sistemas de comunicação é permitir que os usuários acessem e distribuam um ou mais serviços a qualquer hora, em qualquer lugar, independentemente do tipo de terminal (telefone convencional, telefone celular, assistentes pessoais digitais, notebooks, dentre outros) ou da tecnologia da rede de acesso utilizados. Esse cenário é denominado convergência de serviços utilizando-se redes heterogêneas, e em tal realidade, as arquiteturas de qualidade de serviço existentes em cada uma das tecnologias dos sistemas de comunicação não oferecem mecanismos de interoperabilidade e em diversos casos não há controle sob os fluxos de dados uma vez admitido na infraestrutura do sistema de comunicação, assim como questões de handover heterogêneo não são tratadas. A tese propõe uma arquitetura para controle de Qualidade de Serviço para um ambiente heterogêneo composto de backbones IP e redes de acesso de diversas tecnologias, sendo tal arquitetura composta de agentes autônomos e distribuídos nos equipamentos de um sistema de comunicação; assim como.controles baseados no comportamento de uma região de um sistema de comunicação e apoiados na teoria e princípios de sistemas complexos. Os agentes da arquitetura proposta utilizando o princípio de preferential attachment mostraram-se eficientes na determinação do caminho de melhor condição de qualidade de serviços. Os componentes da arquitetura proposta estão localizados em cada equipamento de comunicação, desde o dispositivo do usuário até o provedor de serviços. As medições realizadas pelos agentes e utilizando um algoritmo baseado no conceito de preferential attachment permitiram ao agente alterar o caminho de um fluxo de dados durante sua transmissão para outros caminhos que apresentaram condições mais adequadas de acordo com os parâmetros de QoS. A decisão é baseada no contrato de qualidade de serviço especificado entre usuário e provedor de serviço e, considerando sob controle todos os elementos envolvidos na comunicação; tem-se controle distribuído de qualidade de serviço fim a fim. / One of the targets of the next generation communication systems is to provide access to any service, to any user, anytime, anywhere, regardless the access network technology or type of user device (mobile phone, PDA, personal computer, and so on). This scenario is called convergence of services by heterogeneous networks, and in such scenario quality of service mechanisms presented in legacy communication systems do not provide mechanisms for interoperability between communication systems nor control data flows after control admission in the border of the communication systems. The heterogeneous handover is also not handled by such QoS architectures. This thesis proposes a QoS control architecture for an heterogeneous communication systems composed by IP backbones and several access networks for several kind of technologies. This architecture is composed by a multiagent system and has controls based on the local behavior of the communication system and supported by complex systems theory. The agent decision algorithm is based on preferential attachment concept and the experimentation results indicate that agents could identify a better path to handle a data flow according to QoS parameters. The agents decided to change the path used to transmit the flow data autonomously and according to quality of service contract between user and service provider. The measurements in the test based on preferential attachment algorithm was useful in order agent change flow data path during data flow transmission to other paths with better conditions according to QoS requisites. The agent decision is based on the parameter values defined between end user and service provider. Considering the control elements from proposed architecture it was achieved end-to-end distributed control.

Esta dissertação visa analisar o uso no português brasileiro, doravante PB, da pista prosódica de duração de sílabas na produção e percepção de sentenças ambíguas do tipo SN1-V-SN2-Atributo, tais como A mãe encontrou a filha suada. Tais sentenças apresentam contextos em que pode haver reestruturação de frases fonológicas a depender da interpretação escolhida. Um dos trabalhos que guiaram esta pesquisa foi o de MAGALHÃES & MAIA (2006), no qual os autores também observaram sentenças com ambiguidade devido à presença de um atributo que pode se referir ao sujeito ou ao objeto da oração. Fonologicamente, tais leituras podem ser explicadas pelo fato de o atributo poder ou não se juntar a seu núcleo na construção do domínio da frase fonológica, em que, se há fronteira, um alongamento é esperado (NESPOR & VOGEL, 1996). ANGELO & SANTOS (2012, 2015) concluíram que os falantes não realizaram alongamento significativo, porém, observaram uma tendência a produzir sentenças de aposição não local mais longas. O que se propõe, então, é que o alongamento é um fenômeno existente na língua, mas é opcional. Se isto é verdade, sempre que ele for feito, a sentença deve ser interpretada como não local. Caso contrário, haveria uma variação nas respostas perceptuais ou preferência por aposição local (Princípio da Aposição Local verificado por MAGALHÃES & MAIA (2006) no PB com base no Princípio de Late Closure apontado por FRAZIER (1979)). Dois testes foram realizados: No de produção, além dos 30 falantes de Angelo & Santos, mais 20 foram escolhidos e outros 10 recuperados para que lessem ambas as versões de cada uma das 9 sentenças em meio a histórias que guiavam a um ou outro significado, totalizando 720 dados. No de percepção, foram selecionadas as 3 versões mais longas (de aposição não local) e as 3 mais curtas (de aposição local) do teste de produção para cada sentença, em um teste onde 30 ouvintes selecionaram através de imagens qual a interpretação obtida, totalizando 1620 dados. Primeiramente, os resultados apontaram para diferenças significativas observando o tipo de estrutura (os falantes alongaram e acertaram as não locais). Por tipo de sentença, a diferença foi significativa na maioria delas, confirmando a predição de que, ainda que o alongamento seja opcional na produção, uma vez realizado, ele serve como condutor para uma interpretação não local. Para as sentenças locais, o Princípio de Aposição Local verificado no PB por MAGALHÃES & MAIA (2006) também foi observado em nosso experimento. Por fim, os resultados apontam para 2 tipos de estruturas que podem interferir no processo de alongamento: Sentenças em que o atributo é formado por adjetivos deverbais (geração de uma fronteira CP) e sentenças que permitem construções de small clause (bloqueio da reestruturação). / The aim of this thesis is to analyze the use of syllable duration in Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP) as a prosodic cue in the perception and production of syntactically ambiguous sentences with a NP1-V-NP2-attribute structure (lit. The mother has found her daughter sweating). This type of sentence is produced in contexts where phonological phrases may be restructured, depending on how the sentences are interpreted. A reference for the present research was the study by MAGALHÃES & MAIA (2006), who also found sentences which ambiguity was due to the presence of an attribute that may refer to either the subject or the object of the clause. Phonologically, interpretations of the above-mentioned structure can be explained by the fact that attributes may or may not join the head in the construction of the phonological phrase domain, because lengthening is expected when there is a boundary (NESPOR & VOGEL, 1996). ANGELO & SANTOS (2015) found that the speakers in their study did not make significant lengthening; however, they tended to produce high attachment in longer sentences. It is suggested, therefore, that although lengthening exists in BP as a phenomenon, it is optional. If this is actually true, sentences should be interpreted as having high attachment whenever lengthening is produced. Otherwise, it is assumed that there is variation in perceptual responses or preference for low attachment (Low Attachment Principle, found in PB by MAGALHÃES & MAIA (2006), based on the Late Closure Principle proposed by Frazier (1979)). Data were collected with two tests. In the sentence-reading production test, 30 speakers from the study by ANGELO & SANTOS (2015)) and 20 new speakers read one version of each sentence, while 10 out of the former 30 read two versions, thus the corpus was made of a total of 720 sentences. The perception test used the three longest versions (with high attachment) and the three shortest versions (with low attachment) of each sentence. The informants who took the test chose the image that best represented the meaning that they assigned to each sentence. A total of 1620 data were produced. Overall results showed significant differences for type of structure (the informants lengthened and identified high attachments correctly). For sentence type, there were significant differences in most sentences, thus confirming the hypothesis that lengthening is optional in production and, once it has been performed, it can lead a sentence to be interpreted as having high attachment. For sentences with low attachment, the Low Attachment Principle suggested by MAGALHÃES & MAIA (2006) also occurred in our experiment. The findings signal two types of structures that may interfere with the lengthening process: sentences whose attribute is formed by deverbal adjectives (generation of a CP phrasal boundary) and sentences that allow small clause constructions (restructuring is blocked).

陳曉昭. / 據手稿本影印. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / Ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Includes bibliographical references: leaves 116-133. / Chen Xiaozhao. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒　論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻參考 --- p.10 / Chapter 第一節 --- 依附感的研究方向 --- p.10 / Chapter 第二節 --- 相關理論的探討 --- p.23 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究方法 --- p.43 / Chapter 第一節 --- 樣本及資料收集過程 --- p.43 / Chapter 第二節 --- 概念的定義與量度方法 --- p.47 / Chapter 第四章 --- 研究結果與分析（一）：依附感與人際關係 --- p.58 / Chapter 第一節 --- 影響社會依附感之因素 --- p.58 / Chapter 第二節 --- 影響心理依附感之因素 --- p.74 / Chapter 第三節 --- 社會依附感和心理依附感的關係 --- p.87 / Chapter 第五章 --- 研究結果與分析（二）：依附感與問題行為 --- p.89 / Chapter 第一節 --- 依附感導致之後果變項 --- p.89 / Chapter 第二節 --- 人際關係、依附感與問題行為之關係 --- p.95 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結論 --- p.107 / 中文參考書目 --- p.116 / 英文參考書目 --- p.120

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Foram selecionados 23 artigos de oito países diferentes e envolvendo estudos transversais e longitudinais. De modo geral, os estudos revisados apontaram questões pessoais, como depressão, ansiedade, nível de maturidade e saúde mental, bem como aspectos socioeconômicos, como apoio social, que se associavam à qualidade do AMF. A revisão indicou ainda que o AMF também se relaciona com os cuidados na gestação e com as condições de nascimento, influenciando a vinculação com o bebê e o seu desenvolvimento. Por fim, alguns estudos incluídos também sugerem a associação do AMF com as memórias parentais da gestante. Já a pesquisa empírica teve como objetivo identificar os níveis de AMF em gestantes, relacionando-os com seus vínculos parentais, o tipo de assistência recebida do serviço de saúde durante o pré-natal e demais variáveis sociodemográficas. Tratou-se de um estudo de levantamento descritivo, correlacional e transversal, utilizando um questionário respondido on-line contendo a Escala de Apego Materno-Fetal, a subescala de cuidado do Parental Bonding Instrument e uma ficha de dados sociodemográficos. Participaram 364 gestantes de todo o país, com média de idade de 27,31 anos (DP = 6,03). A maioria das gestantes trabalhava (55,5%), eram casadas ou moravam com o companheiro (81,6%) e com renda mensal familiar predominante de um a dois salários mínimos (31,8%). A média do AMF na amostra foi de 71,43 (DP = 11,76). Verificou-se uma correlação positiva e moderada entre o AMF e a idade gestacional (r = 0,328; p < 0,001), e uma correlação negativa fraca com a idade da gestante (r= -0,219; p=≤0,05). As gestantes que utilizavam a rede pública de assistência para o pré-natal apresentaram maiores médias de AMF do que as que utilizavam exclusivamente a rede privada (t= 4,394; p≤ 0,05), e maiores níveis de AMF relacionaram-se com melhor percepção do cuidado parental. Na análise multivariada, as memórias das práticas de cuidado da mãe se mostraram preditoras do AMF em 5,10% (Beta= 0,226; p= 0,000) e a idade da gestante em 4,5% (Beta= -,219; p=0,000). Concluiu-se que é necessário conhecer o AMF das gestantes como forma de prevenção em saúde. / Maternal Fetal Attachment (AMF) is the bond that the pregnant woman develops with her baby during pregnancy it has repercussions on pregnancy, birth and the relationship between mother and baby. With the goal of investigating this construct, this dissertation is composed of two studies, one of literature review and the second an empirical research. The literature review aimed to identify and analyze empirical studies that evaluated maternal fetal attachment (FMA) in pregnant women, also investigating associated sociodemographic and psychosocial factors. Twenty-three articles from eight different countries were selected, involving cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. In general, the reviewed studies pointed to personal issues such as depression, anxiety, maturity level and mental health, as well as socioeconomic aspects such as social support, which were associated with the quality of MFA. The review also indicated that MFA is related to gestational care and birth conditions, influencing the relationship with the baby and its development. Finally, some included studies also suggest the association of the MFA with the parental memories of the pregnant woman. The empirical research aimed to identify the levels of MFA in pregnant women, relating them to their parental relationships, the type of care received from the health service during prenatal care and other sociodemographic variables. This was a descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study, using an online questionnaire containing the Maternal-Fetal Attachment Scale, the Parental Bonding Instrument (care subscale) and a sociodemographic data sheet. A total of 364 Brazilian pregnant women participated,took part of the study, with a mean age of 27.31 years (SD = 6.03). Most of the pregnant women worked (55.5%), were married or lived with their partner (81.6%) and had a predominant monthly family income of one to two minimum wages (31.8%). The mean MPA in the sample was 71.43 (SD = 11.76). There was a positive and moderate correlation between MFA and gestational age (r = 0.328, p <0.001), and a weak negative correlation with the pregnant woman's age (r = -0.219; p = ≤0.05). Pregnant women using the public prenatal careof public healt system presented higher MFA means than those exclusively using the private one (t = 4.394, p ≤ 0.05), and higher MFA levels were associated with better perception of parental care. In the multivariate analysis, the memories of the mother's care practices were shown to be predictive of AMF in 5.10% (Beta = 0.226, p = 0.000) and the age of the pregnant woman in 4.5% (Beta = -, 219, p = 0.000). It was concluded that it is necessary to know the MFA of pregnant women as a form of prevention in health.

Um dos objetivos das próximas gerações dos sistemas de comunicação é permitir que os usuários acessem e distribuam um ou mais serviços a qualquer hora, em qualquer lugar, independentemente do tipo de terminal (telefone convencional, telefone celular, assistentes pessoais digitais, notebooks, dentre outros) ou da tecnologia da rede de acesso utilizados. Esse cenário é denominado convergência de serviços utilizando-se redes heterogêneas, e em tal realidade, as arquiteturas de qualidade de serviço existentes em cada uma das tecnologias dos sistemas de comunicação não oferecem mecanismos de interoperabilidade e em diversos casos não há controle sob os fluxos de dados uma vez admitido na infraestrutura do sistema de comunicação, assim como questões de handover heterogêneo não são tratadas. A tese propõe uma arquitetura para controle de Qualidade de Serviço para um ambiente heterogêneo composto de backbones IP e redes de acesso de diversas tecnologias, sendo tal arquitetura composta de agentes autônomos e distribuídos nos equipamentos de um sistema de comunicação; assim como.controles baseados no comportamento de uma região de um sistema de comunicação e apoiados na teoria e princípios de sistemas complexos. Os agentes da arquitetura proposta utilizando o princípio de preferential attachment mostraram-se eficientes na determinação do caminho de melhor condição de qualidade de serviços. Os componentes da arquitetura proposta estão localizados em cada equipamento de comunicação, desde o dispositivo do usuário até o provedor de serviços. As medições realizadas pelos agentes e utilizando um algoritmo baseado no conceito de preferential attachment permitiram ao agente alterar o caminho de um fluxo de dados durante sua transmissão para outros caminhos que apresentaram condições mais adequadas de acordo com os parâmetros de QoS. A decisão é baseada no contrato de qualidade de serviço especificado entre usuário e provedor de serviço e, considerando sob controle todos os elementos envolvidos na comunicação; tem-se controle distribuído de qualidade de serviço fim a fim. / One of the targets of the next generation communication systems is to provide access to any service, to any user, anytime, anywhere, regardless the access network technology or type of user device (mobile phone, PDA, personal computer, and so on). This scenario is called convergence of services by heterogeneous networks, and in such scenario quality of service mechanisms presented in legacy communication systems do not provide mechanisms for interoperability between communication systems nor control data flows after control admission in the border of the communication systems. The heterogeneous handover is also not handled by such QoS architectures. This thesis proposes a QoS control architecture for an heterogeneous communication systems composed by IP backbones and several access networks for several kind of technologies. This architecture is composed by a multiagent system and has controls based on the local behavior of the communication system and supported by complex systems theory. The agent decision algorithm is based on preferential attachment concept and the experimentation results indicate that agents could identify a better path to handle a data flow according to QoS parameters. The agents decided to change the path used to transmit the flow data autonomously and according to quality of service contract between user and service provider. The measurements in the test based on preferential attachment algorithm was useful in order agent change flow data path during data flow transmission to other paths with better conditions according to QoS requisites. The agent decision is based on the parameter values defined between end user and service provider. Considering the control elements from proposed architecture it was achieved end-to-end distributed control.

Mak, Chi Kuan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-124). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Examines the relationship between early maternal attachment security and shame in young adults. The findings of this study have significant implications for parenting, including providing support for the importance of a secure relationship between mother and child and the developmental consequences of warm and secure caregiving experiences for their child.