Bremner, James Douglas Cheema, Faiz A. Ashraf, Ali Afzal, Nadeem Fani, Negar Reed, Lai Musselman, Dominique L. Ritchie, James C. Faber, Tracy Votaw, John R.
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Although it is well established that coronary heart disease (CHD) patients with depression exhibit increased mortality compared with equally ill cardiac patients without depression, the mechanisms mediating this effect remain obscure. Depression is characterized by vulnerability to stress and heightened stress responsiveness, and stress can theoret...
Weinger, Katie
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This study investigated the resilience resources and coping profiles of diabetes patients. A total of 145 patients with diabetes completed a questionnaire packet including two measurements of coping (COPE and Coping Styles questionnaires), and personal resources. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was also assessed. Resilience was defined by a factor ...
Hamano, Tsuyoshi Yamasaki, Masayuki Fujisawa, Yoshikazu Ito, Katsuhisa Nabika, Toru Shiwaku, Kuninori
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The growing recognition of the social determinants of health has stimulated research on social capital and mental health. We explored new empirical evidence regarding whether social capital was a determinant of psychological distress. Baseline surveys examining psychological distress were conducted in two towns in 2006–2007 (participation rates for...
Haraldsson, Katarina Lindgren, Eva-Carin Mattsson, Bengt Fridlund, Bengt Marklund, Bertil
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The aim of this study was to generate a theoretical model of underlying social processes that trigger stress in adolescent girls' everyday life. In-depth interviews regarding the experiences of stress at home, school and during leisure time were conducted with 14 17-year-old schoolgirls. Data were analysed by means of the grounded theory method. St...
Yava, Ayla Tosun, Nuran Ünver, Vesile Çiçek, Hatice
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The objective of the study was to determine the perceptions of a group of patients on intensive care units' (ICUs) stressors and the perceptions of nurses on ICU patients' stressors in Turkey, and compare the differences in patients' and nurses' perception of the stressors in ICUs. In this descriptive study, 155 patients who were admitted to medica...
Filaire, Edith Larue, Jacques Portier, Hugues Abed, Aicha Graziella, Pavon-Djavid Teixeira, Anna Anne, Pelle
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Stress not only activates the SAM system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axes, but also the immune system. The aims of this study are to assess the physiological variations in saliva (cytokines, cortisol and alpha-amylase) and perceived stress in professors when they had to lecture to 200 students. A total of eight unstimulated saliva sample...
Huang, Yu-Hwa Du, Pey-Ian Chen, Chin-Hui Yang, Chin-Ann Huang, Ing-Chung
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This study attempted to investigate the role of emotional exhaustion as a mediator on the relationship between job demands-control (JDC) model and mental health. Three-wave data from 297 employees were collected. The results showed that job demands were positively related to emotional exhaustion, and increasing job demands will increase the level o...
Nurmi, Niina
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The changing world of work is increasing demands on workers through greater need for flexibility in global collaboration. This multiple-case study uses a qualitative research approach to study context-specific job stressors and coping in ten geographically distributed work teams. Results demonstrate the complex and dynamic nature of the stress-copi...
Karimi, Leila Karimi, Hamidreza Nouri, Aboulghassem
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The present study examined the effects of two models of work–family conflict (WFC) and job-strain on the job-related and context-free well-being of employees. The participants of the study consisted of Iranian employees from a variety of organizations. The effects of three dimensions of the job-strain model and six forms of WFC on affective well-be...
Ford, Michael T
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Research on the work-family interface has not often explored the role of structural characteristics such as income in the associations among work stressors, work-family conflict and family stressors. The goal of this study was to examine household income as a moderator of the relations among these variables. Results from a nationally (US) represent...
