Somers, Mark John Casal, Jose
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
This purpose of this study was to apply the person-centred model to better understand how employees cope with work-related stress. It builds on earlier person-centred studies of coping and work-related stress by using advanced analytics and text data, and establishes the person-centred model as a viable complement to variable-centred coping researc...
Chen, Wei-Ju Nelson, Alese M Johnson, Hanna B Fleming, Raymond
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
Self-affirmation is the act of focusing on important aspects of the self, such as personal values and characteristics. We used a within-participants design (N = 125) to examine cardiovascular reactivity and self-reported affective responses to the practice of self-affirmation. In the self-affirmation condition, we asked participants to write about ...
Lawrence, Lee M Elphinstone, Bradley
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
Research on general coping is limited within compulsive buying (CB) literature. Nevertheless, other behavioural addictions and hoarding might provide insights into coping in CB. One-hundred and ninety-nine participants (M age = 52.72, SD = 16.06; 50.3% female, 1% unknown sex) completed online questionnaires. Mental and behavioural disengagements we...
Kawabata, Masato Pavey, Toby G Coulter, Tristan J
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
The Mental Toughness Questionnaire-48 (MTQ48) is a 48-item self-report instrument to measure one's level of mental toughness. Despite its wide popularity in psychological studies, the questionnaire has been criticized due to its factorial validity. The present study aimed to re-assess the factorial validity of the instrument and propose alternative...
Alciati, Alessandra Cirillo, Mariateresa Masala, Ignazio Francesco Sarzi-Puttini, Piercarlo Atzeni, Fabiola
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
Fibromyalgia (FM) was frequently observed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We aimed to evaluate the differences in psychiatric comorbidities and life adversities between patients with Rheumatoid arthritis + FM (secondary fibromyalgia [SFM]) and people with primary FM (PFM). In a cross-sectional, observational study, patients with PFM and...
Roemer, Anja Sutton, Anna Grimm, Carsten Medvedev, Oleg N
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
While the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) with respect to distress has been widely researched, unemployed individuals, who often suffer from high levels of distress, have largely been neglected in MBI research. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a low-dose MBI on distress in a sample of young unemployed ad...
Minnen, Molly E Mitropoulos, Tanya Rosenblatt, Alexa K Calderwood, Charles
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
While many employees read and respond to work-related e-mails in the evenings after work, the mechanisms through which after-hours e-mailing influences well-being remain poorly understood. In particular, there has been limited consideration of whether different characteristics of after-hours e-mails (frequency, duration, perceived tone) may trigger...
Greene, Danyelle Hasking, Penelope Boyes, Mark
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
Both non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and risky drinking are positively associated with alexithymia, a personality trait characterized by difficulties appraising feelings and an externally orientated thinking style. Although researchers have studied the associations between alexithymia and both NSSI and risky drinking, the underlying factors of both...
Tomaka, Joe Magoc, Dejan
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Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
It has been suggested in personality and emotion theories that traits can influence emotional states and behaviour through interpretive processes such as cognitive appraisals. The present study investigated the relationships between Big Five personality dimensions and the cognitive appraisal processes associated with challenge and threat states in ...
Kim, Sun-Young Shin, Young-Chul Oh, Kang-Seob Shin, Dong-Won Lim, Weon-Jeong Kim, Eun-Jin Cho, Sung Joon Jeon, Sang-Won
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The aim of this study is to identify occupational stress associated with the development of new-onset anxiety symptoms and the dose-response relationship between sleep duration and the onset of anxiety symptoms. Data from 29,251 healthy employees who had undergone at least two comprehensive health examinations at Kangbuk Samsung Hospital Health Scr...
