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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Life change events"”.
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Participation in physical activity in relation to different life-change events
… and participation in physical activity can also change over a lifetime. The general aim of this thesis was to investigate how different life-change events may affect participation in physical activity. Life-change events studied are pregnancy, parenthood, getting older and living with a chronic …
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An exploration of selected noncognitive variables as predictors of success in basic nursing education programs
… to explore the relationship of social support, life change events, locus of control, and self-esteem as predictors of success in basic nursing education. The study population was a sample of 195 students completing the final semester in two associate degree and two baccalaureate degree nursing …
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Path analytic investigation of stress-symptom relationships: Physical and psychological symptom models
… relationships that included negative life-change events, ongoing, chronic role strains, acute daily stressors, cognitive appraisals of stress, different methods of coping, and physical and psychological symptoms. Seventy-five adult male inmates of a county correctional facility were …
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Toward a grounded theory of trigger events and leadership development in early adulthood
… theory approach, which explains how trigger events are related to leadership development. Trigger events are experience that cause developmental growth and may result in an increased ability to lead (Luthans and Avolio (2003). In this study, there were two phases of data collection. First …
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Dysfunctional Attitudes, Life Stress and Coping Processes
<p>The findings of recent investigations earmarked chronic daily stressors as being highly related to stress levels. In addition, researchers are promoting a more integrative model of stress. The stress response is no longer thought of in strictly linear terms, i.e. an event causes stress. Rather, …
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Effects of War Stressors and Life Events on Gulf War Veterans with CFS Symptoms
<p>The present study examines the association of life stressors and the period when they occur, with the development of CFS symptoms in Gulf War veterans. From data collected from Gulf War Health Registry veterans, 113 met CFS criteria and 441 were controls. After hierarchical linear analysis, …
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Impact of a Medically Supervised Weight Management Program on Obese and Morbidly Obese Persons
… studies indicate that a clinic-based, healthy-lifestyle program can result in significant weight loss, a systemic review of major commercial weight loss programs concluded that the evidence to support the use of such programs is minimal. While few argue for the need for weight loss in obese …
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The Lived Experience of Aging: Listening to the Oldest-Old
… is largely unexplored as a distinct season of life, with increased, varied, and cumulative changes during a unique time of vulnerability and frailty. The purpose of this study was to listen to the oldest-old, and to explore their lived experience of growing old. This hermeneutic phenomenology …
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Youth Adjustment to the Impact of the Sierra Leone Civil War
… war settings following exposure to traumatic events often posed numerous challenges for youth health and well-being. This study explored familial and contextual factors associated with adjustment to the impact of the Sierra Leone civil war in a cross-sectional sample of 359 civilians and …