The Role Of Attachment Style And Marital Quality In Attachment Injury Couples

The attachment system is thought to facilitate relationship goals by motivation seeking and bonding activities with significant others, particularly under times of stress (Bowlby, 1982). Attachment theory has also contributed to further understanding the marital relationship in terms of profound psychological and physiological interdependence. It is perhaps this interdependence that causes damage to the quality of attachment relationship. Hence, attachment injury is defined as “a specific incident or event in which one partner is unresponsive and inaccessible when one partner cries out for help in extreme need” (Johnson & Makinen, 2001). Therefore, marital distress or breakup in couple’s relationships does not happen suddenly, so understanding of attachment injury in relation to individual’s marital quality and attachment style would help practitioners to be equipped for appropriate and effective inventions. Further it would also help counsellors and mental health professionals to be familiar with the complexities of the topic by dealing with consequences of an attachment injury ethically and competently.  Therefore our study aimed at examining the prevalence and nature of attachment injury and its effect on marital quality, in a group of married heterosexual couples. It also attempted to associate attachment styles with and without attachment injury in couples. The study employed cross-sectional exploratory design with a set of self-administered measures. The sample comprised of 400 married individuals from urban Bangalore. Statistical results showed those individuals who were experiencing attachment injury are associated with poor marital quality. It was also seen that attachment injury was found to be associated with gender and insecure attachment style. Therefore our findings suggest that poor marital quality with insecure attachment style plays an important role in attachment injury over time. Based on the attachment style, further intervention strategies and effective programs should be designed for marital counselling. And marital enrichment programs may be useful to enhance marital quality to prevent the marital distress or breakups.

Geometric Properties of Certain Families of Meromorphic Functions

Inthis thesis various geometric properties meromorphic functions are discussed. Some subfamiliesofmeromorphicmultivalentfunctionsMC q (;;L;M) andMS q (;;L;M) associated with Janowski functions are introduced in q analogue using a new operator. The su¢ ciency criteria, Growth results, Distorsion problem and Radii problem for these functions in these new subclasses are discussed. Furthermore inclusion relationship for the functions belonging to these subclasses are investigated along with some convolution properties. A subfamily MKq (;;;L;M) of meromorphic close-to-convex functions are dened and studied in q-analogue in association with generalized Janowski functions in q-analogue. Some results like the coe¢ cient bounds, Growth and Distortion theorems are proved for these functions. Also the radii in the functured open unit disc where these functions behave like meromorphic starlike and meromorphic convex with some order are evaluated. Furthermore, thesubclassesMP;Q (;;L;M) ofmeromorphicfunctionsinPostQuantum analogue are introduced along with some of its geometric properties. Certain important results like radius of starlikeness, radius of convexity and distortion problems are discussed. A class of meromorphic functions in association with the Lemniscate of bernouli functions is introduced in meromorphic p-valent functions. This class MSL ;q is discussed with the help of some su¢ cient conditions. Some results for are evaluated so that 1 + z+1@qf(z) [;q] ;1 + z@qf(z) [;q]f(z);1 + z1@qf(z) [;q](f(z))2 and 1 + z@qf(z) [;q](f(z))3 are associated with Janowski functions and then fuctions are conditionally been shown to belong toMSL ;q: