Physical affection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Bennett DeFries
Keyword(s):  
Physical Affection

Exploring behaviours perceived as important for human—dog bonding and their translation to a robotic platform

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Riddoch ◽  
Roxanne Hawkins ◽  
Emily S. Cross
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
Robotic Platform ◽  
Pet Dogs ◽  
Potential Barriers ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
Social Robotic ◽  
Insight Into

To facilitate long-term engagement with social robots, emerging evidence suggests that modelling robots on social animals with whom many people form enduring social bonds – specifically, pet dogs – may be useful. However, scientific understanding of the features of pet dogs that are important for establishing and maintaining social bonds remains limited to broad qualities that are liked, as opposed to specific behaviours. To better understand dog behaviours that are perceived as important for facilitating social bonds between owner and pet, we surveyed current dog owners (n = 153) with open-ended questions about their dogs’ behaviours. Thematic analysis identified 7 categories of behaviours perceived as important to human-dog bonding, including: 1) attunement, 2) communication, 3) consistency and predictability, 4) physical affection, 5) positivity and enthusiasm, 6) proximity, and 7) shared activities. We consider the feasibility of translating these behaviours into a social robotic platform, and signpost potential barriers moving forward. In addition to providing insight into important behaviours for human—dog bonding, this work provides a springboard for those hoping to implement dog behaviours into animal-like artificial agents designed for social roles.

Seven Types of Nonsexual Romantic Physical Affection among Brigham Young University Students

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 609-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. Gulledge ◽  
Robert F. Stahmann ◽  
Colwick M. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Frequency Distributions ◽  
Brigham Young University ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
Partner Satisfaction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Married Individuals ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Cardiovascular Arousal

College students from Brigham Young University ( N = 186; 68 men, 118 women, M age = 22.7 yr., SD = 3.5) completed a survey regarding nonsexual, romantic physical affection—defined as any touch intended to arouse feelings of love in the giver or the recipient. Respondents included both dating and married individuals, although this was not specified on the questionnaire. This descriptive study reports the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation for each of the seven physical affection types: backrubs/massages, caressing/stroking, cuddling/holding, holding hands, hugging, kissing on the face, and kissing on the lips. Grouped frequency distributions further describe the amounts of each type of physical affection. Although physical affection has been underrepresented in the literature, studies have shown it to be associated with relationship satisfaction, partner satisfaction, psychological intimacy, feeling understood, the development of attachment bonds, modulating cardiovascular arousal, and easier conflict resolution.

Romantic Physical Affection Types and Relationship Satisfaction

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K. Gulledge ◽  
Michelle H. Gulledge ◽  
Robert F. Stahmannn
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Physical Affection

scholarly journals The role of social context in the association between leisure activities and romantic relationship quality

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiersten Dobson ◽  
Brian G Ogolsky
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Daily Diaries ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Romantic Relationship Quality

Shared leisure activities with one’s romantic partner are beneficial for both partners and their romantic relationship, but may not exclusively occur with only the partners present. The current research examines the impact of leisure and other relationship behaviors in various social contexts on romantic relationship quality (satisfaction and commitment). Data were collected from a representative sample of couples over the course of nine months (N=232 couples at Phase 1), including two 10-day daily diaries documenting engagement in 59 behaviors across various social contexts. Results demonstrated that leisure with one’s partner (without others) was positively associated with short-term relationship quality, whereas leisure with others (without one’s partner) was negatively associated with relationship quality; leisure with one’s partner and others and leisure alone were not associated with relationship quality. When considering engagement in other relationship behaviors with one’s partner, we found no unique effects of the rates of the behaviors, but significant effects for the proportion of physical affection relative to other behaviors. These findings suggest that the content and context of leisure have unique roles in romantic relationships.

Touch me just enough: The intersection of adult attachment, intimate touch, and marital satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1945-1967
Author(s):  
Samantha A. Wagner ◽  
Richard E. Mattson ◽  
Joanne Davila ◽  
Matthew D. Johnson ◽  
Nicole M. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Adult Attachment ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Attachment Anxiety ◽  
Marital Functioning ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
The Individual

Nonsexual physical affection plays an important role in marital functioning, but not all individuals are satisfied with the intimate touch they receive from their partner. Differences in adult attachment tendencies may be one way to understand the individual differences in touch satisfaction. Using a sample of 180 different-sex married couples, we explored how attachment associates with touch satisfaction in marriage in a cross-sectional investigation. Consistent with predictions, we found that husbands with greater attachment anxiety were less satisfied with touch, except when engagement in routine affection was relatively high, but especially when low. Lower routine affection diminished touch satisfaction regardless of attachment style, but greater avoidance appeared to buffer this effect for wives. However, wives with greater avoidance had husbands who reported lower touch satisfaction. We also explored the interplay of touch satisfaction and marital quality, finding that they associated positively, even when routine affection is statistically controlled. Lastly, our exploratory analyses suggest that touch satisfaction may serve as a mediating link between anxiety and marital quality. Overall, our findings support that attachment insecurities associate with engagement in and satisfaction with touch and that these processes are relevant to the overall marital quality.

Appendicitis in Private and Public Hospitals for the Insane

1912 ◽  
Vol 58 (243) ◽  
pp. 622-631
Author(s):  
John Frederick Briscoe
Keyword(s):  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Blue Book ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Time Of Admission ◽  
Extreme Care

The excuse for a discussion on this physical affection in association with the insane mind is an attempt to prove by its rarity in county and county-borough asylums, asylums for idiots, mental hospitals and licensed houses of England and Wales, that it is preventable. In ten years from 1902 to 1911 there are recorded by the English Commissioners in Lunacy seventy-five deaths from appendicitis, typhlitis or perityphlitis, ascertained in the majority of cases by post-mortem examination, as having occurred among the insane population of the above institutions. and of the seventy-five deaths it would be instructive to know how many of these had the relics of this disease upon them or were suffering at the time of admission from acute or chronic symptoms. In making the statement that appendicitis is a rare malady in private and public hospitals for the insane, I do so with the support of several practitioners of psychiatry. Not only do these clinical observers give me their assistance, but further I have the help of the pathologist to the London County Asylum at Claybury who states, “I do not believe there has been a single case of appendicitis on the post-mortem table at Claybury since I have been pathologist. Consequently in more than 2000 post-mortems there has been no case.” In comparing the Claybury Hospital for the insane with two general hospitals, St. Bartholomew's and Guy's, we can make a valuable contrast. For instance, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1645 autopsies were made between 1909 and 1911, and of these, 69 were recognised as appendicitis. At Guy's Hospital in the year 1900, of the first 500 post-mortems 12 were recorded as cases of appendicular disease. As regards the proportion of cases of appendicitis to the number of admissions I find that at the same hospital in 1890 there were 8588 admissions. Of these admissions, 306 were subjects of appendicitis, 187 being under the care of surgeons, while 119 were under the care of physicians. The death-rate from appendicitis recorded in the Registrar-General's Report for 1909 shows a slight gradual increase from 1901 to 1909. Referring to other parts of the Kingdom in this investigation I find the statistical tables from the Lunacy Board of Scotland show that formerly deaths from appendicitis were usually returned as deaths from peritonitis, that appendicitis had no separate heading in the Board's tables of causes of death, and is not yet separately notified. If a case of appendicitis were returned it would be placed in the table of Diseases of Digestive System; but it has been ascertained that no death in a Scottish asylum has been returned during the past five years as due to appendicitis. Again the Blue Book of the Inspectors of Lunatics for Ireland in the issue for 1911 gives typhlitis grouped among the causes of death, but the table gives no return of the complaint for that year. and in the table there are only eleven cases of peritonitis. Likewise the Secretary of the Office of Lunatic Asylums, Dublin Castle, sends me the returns for typhlitis for the period 1902 to 1910 as follows: 1902, o; 1903, 1 male; 1904, o; 1905, 1 female; 1906, o; 1907, 1 male; 1908, 2, male and female; 1909, o; 1910, o—viz. five in all. and the cause was ascertained, except in one case, by post-mortem examination. With these figures for your guidance I would remark that in experimental research and statistical calculations, extreme care and accuracy should survive comment. But with the greatest attention and thoroughness that any of us can spend on the subject matter of a professional inquiry in medicine, exception will be sure to prove the rule.

Maternal Teaching Behaviors and Temperament in Preschool Children

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bomba ◽  
Carla B. Goble ◽  
James D. Moran
Keyword(s):  
Verbal Feedback ◽  
Teaching Behaviors ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Verbal Cues ◽  
Physical Control ◽  
Behavioral Style ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Physical Affection ◽  
Maternal Teaching ◽  
The Relationship

This research investigated the relationship between young children's temperament and maternal teaching techniques in 20 mother-child dyads. Children's temperament was assessed by mothers' reports on the Behavioral Style Questionnaire. Teaching behaviors, as assessed with the Maternal Teaching Observation Technique, were inquiry, directive, negative verbal feedback, modeling, visual cue, physical affection, positive physical control, and negative physical control Correlations were − .55 to − .60 for activity with mothers' use of verbal cues, children's adaptability and mothers' positive and negative verbal feedback, and children's distractability and mothers' modeling. The need for further research on parent-child interactions is noted.

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