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Showing 1 to 20 of 385 for “"Life Events"”.
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LIFE EVENTS, STRESS AND COPING
… assessment of suicide risk. A time-geographic life charting was invented and tested. This model promotes systematic descriptions of the patient’s life events (social and burdensome) over time, and geographical sites are used as anchors for autobiographical memories. A so called lifeline follows …
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The Alzheimer's Disease Life Events Study
The Alzheimer's Disease Life Events study examines whether there is a relationship between life events and Alzheimer's disease (AD). The ADLE study uses a mixed methods approach to answer the central research question:Are life events a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease? The central research …
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Stressful life events and deliberate self-harm: Exploring the specificity of stressful life events and emotion regulation facets
… 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 between …
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Relations between Personality and Stressful Life Events
… personality-disordered: PD) traits and stressful life events: SLE) among young adults. Yet, the issue of how personality dispositions may be related to SLEs among middle age and older adults remains unresolved. In this prospective study, both self- and informant-report data were collected to …
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Life Events of Women Who Successfully Completed a GED
Recommendations include: formalized training of GED instructors to establish positive supportive relationships with returning students; greater attention to earlier traumatic or stressful experiences that continue to influence student behavior; and development of more comprehensive programs and …
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Course and predictors of recovery from disruptive life events
… in research of studying traumatic and stressful life events as if they are two completely separate phenomena. Yet there is reason to believe these sets of events are not as different as the literature would suggest. For the many studies that have examined the effects of traumatic or stressful …
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Cultural influences on farm families' responses to difficult life events
… how different families respond to stressful events, particularly the influence of cultural factors as identified by Salamon. This research addressed the following questions: (a) What level of distress is currently experienced by farm families?; (b) What are the differences between men’s and …
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Key life events of successful school superintendents in North Carolina
The problem in this study was to identify the key life events superintendents in North Carolina feel have contributed significantly to their success. Additionally, this study sought to ascertain the people who were instrumental in their careers, the training experiences that contributed most to …
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Living online: an examination of Facebook’s scrapbook and life events features
… This study examined two of Facebook’s features, Life Events and Scrapbook. Considering Facebook’s evolution of features and their success among consumers, it is important to examine these features, the benefits they provide to the consumers and company, as well as potential problems. The same …
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Life events, stress and the consumption of heroin, alcohol and tobacco
… literature exists on a possible link between life events and illness, both physical and psychiatric. This literature is reviewed in the first chapters of this thesis. The evidence that life events affect drug use is then examined. A number of methodological flaws exist in these studies and it …
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Stressful life events, depression, and the effects of perceived social support
… to explore the relationship between stressful life events, depression and the effects of perceived social support. The researcher expected to find a positive correlation with higher stressful life events ratings predicting greater depressive mood. Also, the researcher hypothesized that people …
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Stressful Life Events and Coping Methods in Mental-Illness and Wellness Behaviors
… to examine the relationship between stressful life events and mental-illness and wellness behaviors, and the coping methods used by individuals exhibiting each behavior.</p> <p>Data collection included the use of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale and a coping scale administered to the …
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The organization and retrieval of life events by happy and unhappy persons
… to the organization and retrieval of valenced life events. In Study 1, Ss (N = 152) reviewed six positive and six negative life events they previously had indicated occurred. After a 40 min distractor task, they received a surprise recall test of the events. Only a weak and unreliable relation …
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