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Showing 1 to 20 of 171 for “"Stress and Coping"”.
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LIFE EVENTS, STRESS AND COPING
In order to increase the understanding of suicidal behaviour, the general aim of the thesis is to gain a profound knowledge of the suicidal individual, and hence to find and ensure a preventive strategy. This will be accomplished by finding and trying new methods for evaluation of suicide risk. The …
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Stress and coping among adolescent diabetics
The relationship between coping and adjustment, optimism, and frequency of blood glucose monitoring was examined in 99 adolescents (88 female, 11 male). Participants were between the ages of 12 and 18 with a mean age of 14.8 years. Mean duration of diabetes at the time of participation was 5.3 …
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Stress and coping among adoptive parents
… chronic strains, psychological resources, and coping responses on emotional stress among 99 adoptive parents who responded to a mailed questionnaire. Factor analysis identified use of three problem-focused coping strategies (planful problem-solving, cognitive reappraisal, confrontive …
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Dysfunctional Attitudes, Life Stress and Coping Processes
… 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, cognitive …
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Occupational Stress and Coping of Japanese Workers
… investigate relationships between occupational stress, the employee's coping strategies, and the resulting mental health of Japanese workers. In particular, the roles of the employee's stress coping strategies in the above relationships were examined from the following three viewpoints: (a) the …
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Stress and coping among high-level adolescent golfers
… adolescent golfers cope with performance related stressors. As such, three interrelated studies were designed to pursue this purpose.The purpose of Study 1 was to examine instances when international adolescent golfers' coped effectively and ineffectively with performance-related stressors during …
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Stress and Coping Techniques in Successful Intercultural Marriages
… of intercultural couples presenting for marital and family therapy. Current literature on intercultural relationships states that they are at a high risk for failure, with higher divorce rates and lower marital satisfaction reported than for same culture marriages. Few actual research studies …
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Salvadoran refugees: a case study of stress and coping
Call number: LD2668 .T4 HDFS 1987 M34
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Salvadoran refugees: a case study of stress and coping
Call number: LD2668 .T4 HDFS 1987 M34
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Stress and Coping in Nurse Managers: A Qualitative Description
… This study provided a qualitative description of stress and coping as perceived by today's nurse manager incumbents. Background: The healthcare work environment as a source of overwork and stress has been implicated in today's nursing shortage. Nurse managers play a pivotal role in creating work …
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Stress and coping of parents of hospitalized premature infants
… a semi-structured interview derived from Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) phenomenological model of stress and coping, 32 mothers and 25 fathers identified stressors associated with having a low birthweight, premature infant hospitalized in a newborn intensive care unit (NICU). From this list of …
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Job-related stress and coping resources identified by new principals
… of this study was to identify areas of job stress experienced by public school principals, and elements of the work environment and personal coping mechanisms used to alleviate that stress. Specifically, the study sought to identify sources of job stress as defined by role overload, role …
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Teacher Voices: Stress and Coping Mechanisms among the Teaching Profession
<p>Stress is a natural response that occurs in our body when we feel overwhelmed, and it can manifest in both positive and negative instances. The teaching profession is not exempt from this phenomenon, as it is unique in that educators have multiple roles to play and have to manage and interact …
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Occupational Stress and Coping Resources of K-12 Probationary Teachers
… the study was to measure what factors impact the stress levels of probationary teachers who may or may not be new to the field of education, to determine what demographic characteristics are related to higher levels of stress, to determine what coping resources were successful in reducing stress, …
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Investigating the Experience of Stress and Coping in Elite Athletes
Stress and coping are both a part of the human experience, affecting every area of life. In elite sporting environments, stress is often magnified with the expectations and demands that are placed upon athletes, therefore effective coping mechanisms are vital to an athlete’s performance and …
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Stress and coping in multiple role women : an exploratory study
This study examined the relationship between stress and coping in a sample of women simultaneously occupying the roles of wife, mother and paid employee. The sample comprised 95 subjects recruited through medical practices. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected by means of self report …
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Systemic Racism: Perceptions, Stress, and Coping among African American College Students
College attrition represents a serious and persistent problem for ethnic minority students. Although there has been a plethora of research examining retention rates, most have focused on difficulty paying for college and financial strain. Importantly, past studies suggest that minority stress in …
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Sense of Humor, Stress and Coping, and Outcomes in Children's Lives
Children are confronted with many stressors in their environment which may bring about symptoms such as anxiety, sadness, worry, aggressiveness, hyperactivity, restlessness, or low self esteem (Sharrer & Ryan-Wenger, 2002). To prevent the short and long term effects of stress, children may use …
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Perspectives of Stress and Coping among Older, College-Educated African American Women
… African American women have excess rates of stress-associated chronic diseases. Yet, there is limited research exploring the intersectional position of older African American women to identify within-group differences in stress experiences. Specifically, stress and coping among …
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