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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Cumulative Stress"”.
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Power and Pressure: Frailty as a Measure of Cumulative Stress Among Ancient Maya Royals from Belize
… and social well-being that can be disrupted by stressors (environmental, nutritional, social). Frailty is an accumulation of this stress and leaves skeletal biomarkers which provides evidence of ongoing stress and survived stress event at time of death. The thought that elite status in ancient …
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Keep calm and age well: Behavioural and electrophysiological investigations into the effects of cumulative stress exposure on ageing cognition
… and enriching past exploration into the impact cumulative life stress exerts on ageing cognition. In order to extend previous work into this topic, behavioural measures were paired with electroencephalographic recordings of the cortical oscillatory activity thought to underlie cognitive …
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How Cumulative Stress Affected the Lived Experience of Emergency Medical Service Workers after a Horrific Natural Disaster: Implications for Professional Counselors
… informants who could report the effects of cumulative stress reactions that occurred during and shortly after their response into that devastated region. This study was grounded in Critical Incident Stress Management Theory (CISM) developed by Jeff Michell. This inquiry utilized focus groups …
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Social Markers of Maturation and the Transition to Young Adulthood: The Life Courses of Adolescent Substance Users After Treatment
"Findings did not support use of the Cumulative Stress Theory or the Precocious Development Theory for predicting outcomes in this clinical population. The ADP models offered significant improvement over the model with background characteristics only. Change in social environment was the leading …
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Understanding Law Enforcement Mental Health Communication and Police Officers’ Mental Health Support Preferences: A Grounded Theory Study
… the United States, police officers experience cumulative stress and their mental health-related concerns often remain unaddressed. Recently, police departments have begun to offer more mental health support resources in an attempt to mitigate this issue. However, the underutilization of such …
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Exploring the neurobehavioural impacts of combined early life and adult stress on decision making under uncertainty
… neurobehavioural outcomes of early life stress (ELS) using the repeated maternal separation (MS) procedure in rats. The specific hypothesis tested was that stress effects accumulate over the developmental lifespan, resulting in either stress resilience or vulnerability in adulthood. Early …
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Destructive Behaviors in Naval Shipyards: A STAMP and System Dynamics Analysis
… and critical manning shortfalls create cumulative stress distinct from operational duty. These destructive behaviors severely impact personnel’s well-being, erode force readiness through attrition and morale issues, and indicate systemic contributing factors as highlighted by recent …
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Dislocated and misplaced: an autoethnography of moving, missing, and finding home
… theories suggest it may stem from the cumulative stress of disrupted relational ties, routines, and familiar environments. With most research largely quantitative in design, nuanced light needs to be shone on the topic of moving on and settling down so that we might understand more of …
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Untersuchungen zum Einfrier- und Auftauverhalten pharmazeutischer Humanproteinlösungen im Großmaßstab
… purpose of the study was to determin the major stress factors during large-scale freezing of pharmaceutical protein solutions. The stability of four protein bulk solutions during several freeze-thaw cycles was studied, in order to characterise two different large scale freezing systems and …
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Stressful life events and deliberate self-harm: Exploring the specificity of stressful life events and emotion regulation facets
… mediated the relationship between different stressful life events and deliberate self-harm. It examined both the cumulative and specific effects of stressful life events. Methods: A quantitative correlational survey method was adopted using several questionnaires to explore the relationship …
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Validation and use of novel techniques to study the impacts of large-scale environmental changes on the health of wild waterfowl
… an increasing number and magnitude of stressors associated with the rapidly changing world. Repeated or prolonged stressors can trigger sustained elevations of glucocorticoids, resulting in detrimental effects on health and reproduction, with potential impacts on populations. This Ph.D. …