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Hodge, Jennifer Faison. "Physical activity levels of students with mental retardation and students without disabilities /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486398195326029.
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Combrinck, Celeste-Marie. "The psychological implications of creative activities : an investigation into how painting affects stress levels." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23850.
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The research aimed to investigate the effects of creative activity on stress and anxiety levels. The reasons for this proposed direction of study was to investigate the reasons for reported success in art therapy (thus strengthening its standing in the scientific psychological community), to examine whether creative activities could be used to benefit the mental well-being of people in general and to study the link between creativity and mental well-being. This was accomplished through the following means: Patients from MuelMed hospital’s rehabilitation centre took part in a creative intervention. Patients took the SCL-90-R before painting for about an hour and then filled in the SCL-90-R again. A control group was also selected who also filled in the SCL-90-R to ascertain their stress levels. The mean score’s of the two groups was compared as well as the before and after scores of the experimental group. The MMSE (Mini Mental Status Exam) was used to screen patients, so that only those patients cognitively capable of participating in the study took part in the experiment. For the most part the MMSE was a useful tool to screen patients. In the experimental group, there was no statistically significant difference between the before and after scores on the SCL-90-R. Because the experimental group showed no difference, only one measure of the control group was taken, which also did not differ significantly from the scores of the experimental group. Reasons for the lack of statistical significance is discussed, and may be due to a lack of reported initial stress levels. Despite the lack of a statistically significant findings, it is suggested that further studies be conducted to establish the role creativity plays in mental well-being. Copyright<br>Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.<br>Psychology<br>unrestricted
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Williams, Stacey L., and Emma G. Fredrick. "Minority Stress & LGBT Mental and Physical Health: Building Interventions & Resources." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8080.
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Feldman, Darya C. "Levels of stress and coping in certified athletic training graduate assistants." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3914.
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Yi, Joyce P. "Exploring trait resilience in association with mental and physical health /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9020.
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Wale, Rebekah Kate. "Heart rate variability and cognitive performance in response to physical and mental stress." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/9c0218ea-49ed-407a-865d-8fd73a11cdf7.
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Giouvanaki, Asimina. "Nature’s Impact on Mental and Physical Wellbeing : A study of the mental and physical health in Greek Immigrants to Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36458.
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In the past Man coinhabited harmoniously with nature only to have the balance disturbed with the advent of the Industrial Revolution replacing the green habitat with urban concrete settlements Consequently, the characteristics of the contemporary city pose a set of serious threat to man’s physical and mental health. Crowdedness, lack of apt infrastructure, pollution, noise pollution and rise in temperature are all contributing factors to the Man’s demised health and detachment from previous amicable coexistence with nature. For the past 30 years, extensive research has been conducted studying the correlation between man and nature, and nature’s impact on man’s health. The theory of “Biophilia,” by Edward, O. Wilson, Rachel and Stephen Kaplan’s “Attention Restorative Theory,” and Roger Ulrich’s “Stress Reduction Theory,” have been innovating and contributing towards gaining more understanding of the importance of a green environment in man’s everyday life. As a corollary the above-mentioned theories gave rise to the following quantitative study conducted over a 4-month period, including 81 respondents, in Spring 2020, focusing on whether a natural green environment in Sweden had impacted the mental and physical health in Greek immigrants to Sweden. The findings suggest that comparing the respondents’ life in Greece and respectively in Sweden there was indeed an improvement in the mood and health of the sample groups taking into consideration: how healthy they are, how healthy they feel, how happy they feel in relation to work, time spent in Sweden, marital status and of course the parameters that focus on the part of the natural environment at home and in their neighbourhood in Sweden. There seem to have been a statistically significant improvement in their health compared to when they lived in Greece but there is insufficient evidence to support that some of the parameters examined are responsible for this. Happiness on the other hand seem to possess a statistical important role due to their marital status among others along with the green surrounding environment having an impact on their mental well-being but not their physical health. Therefore, a more sustainable green environment seems to have impacted the overall psychological and physical state of the respondents, but further extensive research is recommended to investigate in depths others factors i.e., psychosomatics, environmental psychology along with nature related theories and studies.
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Osborne, Natasha. "Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Prenatal Stress on Physical Growth and Stress-Related Behaviors in Prepubertal Mouse Offspring." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40971.
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Several factors can modulate the link between fetal disruptions and later-life illnesses. The main objective of this thesis was to determine, in a mouse model, the impact of prenatal stressor timing and offspring sex on prepubertal metabolic and mental health outcomes. C57BL/6 dams in the first or second trimester of pregnancy experienced a restraint stressor or were left undisturbed. Pups were weighed daily until postnatal day (PND) 21, at which time fat distribution was measured. Anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors were tested on PND19-20 in open field, elevated plus maze, splash and tail suspension tests. Second trimester stressed males gained more weight and had increased fat deposits surrounding the kidneys. Although anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors were not apparent in prenatally stressed offspring of either sex, females stressed in utero exhibited a hyperactive phenotype. This work is the first to show sex- and trimester-specific consequences of early pregnancy stressors in prepubertal offspring.
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Gallagher, Erin E. "Does Depression Act as a Mediating Variable Between Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Experienced Physical Dysfunction?" Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1396350937.
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Lorah, Ashley M. "Effects of Aerobic and Mental Exercises on College Students' Stress." Ashland University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auhonors1462299956.
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Scott, Haleigh Morgan. "The stress-mental health relationship: social support and physical activity as moderators in adults with Intellectual Disabilities." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343228319.
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Gray, Sylvia Jane. "The Impact of a Nursing Program on Stress, Physical Illness, Anxiety, and Self-Concept of Participants in a Community College Nursing Program." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331716/.
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This research study was designed to investigate the relationship between participation in a nursing education program and the factors of stress, physical illness, anxiety, and self-concept experienced by the participants. Also, the study examined the relationship between age of participants and these same factors. The purposes of this study were (1) to determine if beginning and ending nursing students differ in stress, physical illness, anxiety, and self-concept, (2) to examine the relationship between age of nursing students and stress, physical illness, anxiety, and self-concept, (3) to provide information that may help develop a theoretical base concerning stressful life events and illness in nursing students, and (4) to provide information that may be beneficial with regard to future research involving stress, physical illness, anxiety, self-concept, and age in nursing students.
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Jeter, Whitney Kristin. "Chronic psychological trauma predicts mental and physical trauma symptoms differentially based on gender and levels of resilience and forgiveness." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15178.
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Master of Science<br>Department of Psychology<br>Brenda L. McDaniel<br>A large majority of trauma research focuses on relatively acute, physical trauma leading to the development of negative mental and physical trauma symptoms. Sometimes psychological trauma is measured concurrently with these instances of physical trauma. However, less is known about the impact of solely psychological trauma on mental and physical trauma symptom development. Moreover, chronic rather than acute psychological trauma is even more understudied. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to address the gap of knowledge surrounding the impact of chronic psychological trauma on mental and physical health in young adults. The present inquiry was guided by two theoretical models: the Chronic Relational Trauma (CRT) Model and the Etiology of Psychopathology (EP) Model. The CRT Model posits a cyclical pattern of relational trauma perpetrated by caregivers, peers, and intimate partners. Relatedly, the EP Model focuses on acute physical trauma exposure leading to the development of negative mental and physical trauma symptoms as well as potential biological dysregulation with personality characteristics moderating these relationships. However, it is currently unknown how these moderating personality characteristics impact chronic psychological trauma. Thus, the current study blended these two theoretical models in order to examine the impact of chronic psychological trauma on mental, physical, and biological symptoms. One hundred and eighty young adults (Mean age = 18.53, SD = .70) were recruited for the current study. Participants completed a series of questionnaires and provided five total cortisol samples via oral swabs. Results indicate that after controlling for chronic physical trauma, chronic psychological trauma predicts mental trauma symptoms for females and males, but not physical trauma symptoms or biological dysregulation in cortisol. Further, levels of resilience, namely a sense of mastery and emotional reactivity as well as forgiveness significantly moderate the relationship between chronic psychological trauma and mental and physical trauma symptoms for males and females differentially. Contributions of the current findings in terms of adding unique knowledge to trauma literature and future research projects are discussed.
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Mereish, Ethan. "Resilience Through Relational Connection: A Relational Model to Sexual Minority Mental and Physical Health." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3794.
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Thesis advisor: Paul Poteat<br>Sexual minorities (e.g., lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals) are at higher risk for mental and physical health disparities than heterosexuals, and research has related some of these disparities to minority stressors such as institutional heterosexism, sexual prejudice, and discrimination. Yet, there is a dearth of research elucidating factors that predict the development of these health risks, and factors that protect and promote resiliency against them. Building on the minority stress model, the present study utilized relational cultural theory to situate sexual minority health disparities within a relational framework. Specifically, the study examined the mediating and moderating factors between the deleterious effects of distal stressors (i.e., heterosexist relational disconnections such as discrimination and victimization) and proximal stressors (i.e., self-disparaging relational images such as internalized homophobia, sexual orientation concealment) on mental and physical health for sexual minorities. Among 719 sexual minority adults, structural equation modeling analyses were used to test three models of: the relations between minority stressors and health; mediating effects of diminished agency, loneliness, and shame on the relations between minority stressors and health; and the moderated-mediation effects of growth-fostering relationships with peers, mentors, and community on the mediating pathways between minority stressors and health. Results indicated that heterosexist distal and proximal minority stressors predicted poor mental health (i.e., depression, anxiety, and suicidality) and physical health (i.e., cardiovascular disease risk, distressing physical symptoms). The relations between proximal minority stressors and health were mediated by diminished sense of agency, loneliness, and shame, and there were mixed results for the relations between distal stressors and health. Although the direct effects of growth-fostering relationships were significant in predicting lower levels of diminished agency, loneliness, and shame, these factors had mixed moderating effects. Findings have research, practice, and policy implications that underscore the possible mechanisms by which sexual minority stressors lead to poor health. Researchers and practitioners need to addresses and advocate against societal forces contributing to heterosexist relational disconnections and for sexual minority health policies and research<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education<br>Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
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Gordon, Andrew Ray. "Perceived stress levels in relationship to win/loss records| A large urban public school district in Florida." Thesis, Capella University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3645818.
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<p> The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the personal perceived stress levels of athletic coaches (n=731) in a large urban public school district in Florida in relation to win/loss records of the most recent athletic season; the study was performed utilizing the PSS-14 (Cohen, 1983). The responses to the survey queries were answered based on a 5-point Likert scale. Out of the 731 coaches who were approached with the survey, 97 participants completed the survey; however, there were four unusable surveys, leaving 93 useable surveys. The 93 surveys constituted a 13.3% portion of the population. The correlational analysis (p< .05) of the responses for High stress scores indicated that these items for the entire group (n=93) of participants were significantly correlated with the win/loss records. Females (n=29) reported more High stress scores on Questions 1, 2, 3, 8, 12, and 14. Males (n=64) reported High Stress for Questions 1, 3, and 12. Questions 1, 3, and 12 were common to both Males and Females. The findings of the research study indicated that there is a relationship between the specific subsets of PSS-14 for two of the statements and the win/loss records for the district. This correlation showed that coaches recognize and attempt to cope with the stressors that they encounter in their day to day activities with regard to their win/loss records and attempt to minimize the effects of stress and worry about anticipated events, (e.g., possible future games, playoffs, tournaments, and other associated events in the high school athletic world). Success in managing these two components of coaching would augment the other components of the PSS-14 since emotional, physical, mental and psychological factors in coaching and playing a sport are closely tied together. Continued research into the infinite possibilities of education and coaching should provide a means to improve each district's performance in the education of youth. Athletics and fitness have existed as a concomitant of education since the earliest forms of education came into existence. The two faces of education and athletics should continue to be examined to profit the individual and the community. </p>
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Biebl, Sara Jane Wonderlich. "A DIATHESIS-STRESS MODEL OF VICTIMIZATION: RELATIONS AMONG TEMPERAMENT, PEER VICTIMIZATION, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND HEALTH PROBLEMS." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/367.
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF SARA J. W. BIEBL, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Child Clinical Psychology, presented on June 14th, 2010 Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: A DIATHESIS-STRESS MODEL OF VICTIMIZATION: RELATIONS AMONG TEMPERAMENT, PEER VICTIMIZATION, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND HEALTH PROBLEMS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Lisabeth F. DiLalla, Ph.D. Youth who are victimized by their peers are more likely to develop symptoms of psychopathology and health problems in adolescence and adulthood. Also, temperamental traits of behavioral inhibition and emotional reactivity have been found to be significant risk factors for the development of mental and physical health problems. Diathesis-stress models of psychopathology indicate that the interaction between temperament and experiences of trauma may lead an individual to develop psychopathology. Most studies using a biosocial model of psychopathology, however, have focused more on experiences of physical and sexual abuse rather than experiences of peer abuse. No studies to date have examined how experiences of peer victimization moderate the relationship between temperament and later experiences of psychopathology and health problems, which was the primary focus of the present study. A second aim of the present study was to examine how the stability of victimization throughout childhood related to health problems in adolescence. Seventy 12- to 20-year-old youth participated in the present longitudinal study. This longitudinal study included three specific time points. At time 1, when participants were five years of age, they engaged in a 20-minute peer play interaction and their parents completed temperament measures. Tapes of the peer play interaction were rated by trained coders for instances of peer victimization. During time 2, these same youth were between the ages of 10 and 18 and were contacted again and asked to complete measures related to peer victimization. Finally, at time 3, which was the present study, participants were between the ages of 12 and 20 and completed a 1-hour telephone interview which was used to obtain information about experiences of peer victimization as well as mental and physical health outcomes. Results from the present study indicated that youth with specific early temperamental traits (behaviorally inhibited and difficult) and who experienced peer victimization that is impairing appeared to be at multiplicatively greater risk for developing mental and physical health problems in adolescence compared to youth who did not have these same biological vulnerabilities and environmental experiences. Additionally, youth who chronically experienced peer victimization had significantly more mental and physical health problems than youth who experienced less stable victimization. This study adds to the current research on peer victimization by using a diathesis- stress model to examine the interactive effects of peer victimization and temperament on negative mental health and physical health outcomes. Moreover, findings from this study will provide researchers and professionals with information that can aide in the development of interventions for children who experience peer victimization and who suffer from different types of health problems and symptoms of psychopathology. More specifically, by understanding how innate factors such as temperament interact with a child's experience of peer victimization, researchers and clinicians may be able to design more specialized interventions for children based on the patterns of their victimization experiences and temperamental traits.
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Garcia, Avalos Tania, and Jose Murillo. "AMONG MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS, WHAT HAS A HIGHER IMPACT ON LEVELS OF STRESS: SPIRITUALITY, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, OR SELF-COMPASSION." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/672.
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The main objective of this study was to determine which coping mechanisms have a higher impact on levels of stress in MSW graduate students. The distinctive aspect of this study was that the three primary points that were examined in MSW graduate students were spirituality, physical activity, and self-compassion. This study gathered quantitative data from students that were enrolled in the Master of Social Work program. There were a total of 102 participants in this study. A variety of bivariate analyses were conducted to assess the collected data. Significant outcomes from this study revealed that self-compassion was the best mitigator of stress levels. Spirituality was also found to be helpful in mitigating stress levels. Recommendations included the promotion of self-compassion in MSW graduate programs, along with agencies that provide additional training on self-compassion. Another important recommendation was for future studies to include date from other universities with MSW programs in order to expand and enrich the data.
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Sundell, Paul J. "The relationship of job congruence, job satisfaction, and social support on the mental and physical health of sport officials." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=701.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 130 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-122).
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Oldfield, Stuart. "Sense of belonging in workplace as a predictor of mental and physical health and intention to leave among university employees." Thesis, The Author [Mt. Helen. Vic.] :, 2003. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/61173.
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It is has been recognised that sense of belonging and related concepts are strongly associated with mental and physical health. Research to date, however, has focused on sense of belonging to the community in which one lives. The present research extended the work on sense ofbelonging by assessing the relationship between sense ofbelonging in the workplace and the mental and physical health ofstaff employed in a regional university. It was hypothesised that there would be a significant negative relationship between sense ofbelonging and stress. It was also hypothesised that those staff who indicated a higher sense ofbelonging to their work team and organisation would be less likely to leave their employment and have fewer mental and physical health problems. A sample of 46 male and 49 female staff members completed sense ofbelonging and stress questionnaires. The research found that females showed a higher sense ofbelonging to both the work team and the organisation than males. Also, employees who showed a lower sense ofbelonging to the University had stronger intentions ofleaving their employment. Further, workers who indicated a higher sense ofbelonging to the work team exhibited lower burnout, lower global stress, and better general health. Results suggested that the mental health ofworkers can be improved by encouraging a sense of belonging to the immediate work team and that retention of workers may be increased by facilitating a sense of belonging to the organisation.<br>Master of Applied Science
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GOYAL, DEVENDRA. "EVALUATING WORK-FACTOR CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990816550.
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Scott, Haleigh Morgan. "Social support, physical activity and stress as determinants of well-being in adults with intellectual disability." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469014366.
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Pereira, Delicia Dorothy. "Parental bonding: Validity, stability and predictor of mental and physical health during pregnancy." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2019. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2185.
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Background: Parental bonding during childhood is known to have a significant impact on an individual’s life-long health. The influence of early parent-child relationships may be particularly strong in mothers who are pregnant with their first child. In this study, these emotional bonds were explored using the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), a retrospective and quantitative measure of parental bonding. The PBI has not been validated in a pregnant population, nor has its consistency been examined across the birth of a child. Therefore, this study: i) validates the factor structure of the PBI for the first time in an Australian population of pregnant first-time mothers; ii) examines the stability of the PBI across the birth of their child; and iii) investigates the impact parental bonding has on a mother’s mental and physical health during pregnancy.
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The data for this study was originally collected as part of a larger study of 660 pregnant first-time mothers. The PBI factor structure was examined using exploratory factor analysis. Correlations between PBI factor scores and childhood socio-economic status and stressful life events experienced before 16 years of age, were assessed to further validate the PBI. To test the stability of the PBI, the consistency of participants’ recalled parental bonding before and after the birth of their first child was assessed. The PBI was used to further determine whether any changes in recollections of parental bonding were associated with stress during pregnancy, birth complications, or symptoms of depression. The relationship between recollections of parental bonding and mental and physical health outcomes, including social support and stress experienced during pregnancy, risk of depressive symptoms, the participant’s age at baby’s birth, pre-pregnancy body mass index, and smoking during pregnancy were all examined.
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This validation of the PBI established three factors: parental Care, Overprotection and Autonomy. Greater parental Care and independence was apparent in the higher socio-economic status childhood environments. Lower parental Care and a greater restriction of Autonomy was reported by women who experienced more childhood psychosocial stress. There were strong correlations between prenatal and postnatal parental factor scores and no statistically significant differences between these scores demonstrating high levels of reliability, validity and consistency. The exception to this was women who experienced a more challenging beginning to motherhood (e.g., foetal distress, baby feeding method at discharge, postnatal depression) recalling a more positive relationship with their mother in the postnatal PBI. Maternal Care was found to be the most significant predictor of participant mental health during pregnancy as it was identified in a number of outcomes.
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This thesis demonstrates that parental bonding during childhood is an important contributor to maternal health during pregnancy for first-time mothers. These results identify the PBI as a valuable measure in clinical and research settings for investigating the impact a pregnant woman’s early developmental environment has on her life-course. Clinically, these findings highlight the need to identify women who may require additional support services in an effort to prevent intergenerational risk factors and optimise maternal and child health.
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Lökholm, Elin, and Emilia Nilsson. "Upplevelser och effekter av fysisk aktivitet på stressrelaterad ohälsa : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-442.
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Stressrelaterad ohälsa är ett vanligt och ständigt ökande problem i dagens västerländska samhälle. I många fall leder denna typ av ohälsa till sjukskrivningar och stora kostnader för samhället. Det är inte alltid möjligt att undvika eller påverka de stressorer människan exponeras för i arbetslivet och på fritiden, utan människor får istället hitta sätt att minska stresspåverkan på kroppen. Arbetet med, och förebyggandet av, stressrelaterad ohälsa är ett högst aktuellt ämne, och är en central del inom hållbar utveckling. Syftet med detta arbete är att sammanställa och presentera en översikt av befintlig forskning gällande upplevelsen av fysisk aktivitet och dess effekt på stressrelaterad ohälsa. Denna litteraturstudie är baserad på 15 empiriska studier, och innefattar både kvalitativa och kvantitativa studier för ett bredare perspektiv. Resultatet bygger på två huvudteman; Relationen mellan fysisk aktivitet och stressrelaterad ohälsa samt hinder och möjligheter för fysisk aktivitet. Resultatet visar att fysisk aktivitet är en viktig faktor för att främja hälsa och förebygga ohälsa. Socioekonomisk status påverkar mängden fysisk aktivitet som utförs och hur stor stresspåverkan är på kroppen. Många upplever att en stor del av stressen är arbetsrelaterad, och att de då använder fysisk aktivitet för att hantera sin stress. Det är viktigt att individanpassa den aktivitet som utförs för att få ett mer positivt resultat. Genom att vårdpersonal får en fördjupad kunskap och förståelse inom området kan det underlätta arbetet kring att främja fysisk aktivitet hos människor och på så vis förebygga stress och ge ett ökat välbefinnande.
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Hadd, Valerie. "Stress and well-being in breast cancer survivors : the influence of personality, socio-demographics, cancer-related characteristics, and physical activity levels." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23172.
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Cancer is now considered to be one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in Canada, with breast cancer emerging as the most common type of cancer diagnosed in Canadian women (Canadian-Cancer-Society, 2009). As breast cancer patients move to long-term survivorship, they face new challenges that extend beyond end of treatment (Deimling et al, 2003) which can have direct influences on quality of life (Ferrell et al., 1995). Previous research has often failed to use stress frameworks to examine stress relationships faced by breast cancer survivors (BCS) and has seldom investigated the effect of specific cancer-related stressors and their meaning on quality of life. To address these limitations, the current study investigated the influence of stress-related variables on quality of life of BCS post-treatment using Lazarus’ framework. Moreover, the direct and indirect effects of individual characteristics, including physical activity and personality trait, as well as cancer-related characteristics on stress-related variables were investigated. The final sample included 365 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, had completed treatment, and were between the age of 29 and 90 years (Mage = 61.58, SD = 11.36). Structural equation modeling techniques were used to test a hypothesized model based on Lazarus’ framework. The measurement and structural models testing the most global hypothesized model showed good model fit (RMSEA < .08, CFI > .90, TLI > .90), whereby direct and indirect effects of stressors, physical activity, and optimism on quality of life were shown. Together, these constructs explained 61% and 70% of the variance in physical and mental health respectively, highlighting the direct effect of stressors on quality of life above and beyond the role of cognitive appraisal. Experiencing more stressors was significantly associated with reporting lower levels of quality of life. Furthermore, personality had a direct effect on mental health whereas being physically active was positively associated with physical health. Overall, findings provided partial support for Lazarus’ model and highlighted some of the potential benefits of physical activity for cancer survivors. These results could be used to guide the design of interventions aimed at increasing physical and mental health in breast cancer survivors.
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Figueroa, Wilson S. "An Examination of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Minority Stress on Mental and Physical Health in Sexual Minorities." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1396009147.
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Cariello, Annahir N. "INFLUENCE OF CULTURAL STRENGTHS ON THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ACCULTURATIVE STRESS, RACISM, AND MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IN LATINO IMMIGRANTS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5413.
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The Latino immigrant population in the United States has grown rapidly, now standing at over 56 million people. Due to this increase in Latino immigrants, investigation of their mental and physical health is crucial. Few studies have investigated conjointly both physical and mental health in Latino immigrant adults. Daily discrimination and acculturative stress have been found to affect the mental and physical health of Latino immigrants. Cultural strengths including social support, religiosity, and enculturation have been linked to Latino immigrant health. In the minority stress model, cultural strengths have been theorized to moderate relationships between discrimination and health. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among acculturative stress, discrimination, and mental and physical health. A secondary aim was to examine whether direct and indirect effects among these series of variables are moderated by social support, religiosity, and enculturation. A community sample of 204 Latino immigrants were recruited. Generally, bivariate associations between variables were congruent with previous research. Anxiety was found to mediated the effects of both acculturative stress and discrimination on physical health. Depression was found to mediate the effect of discrimination on physical health. Social support was found to moderate indirect effect of discrimination on physical health through depression. Enculturation moderated the indirect effects of both acculturative stress and discrimination on physical health through anxiety. Results from this study indicate that minority stressors can impact physical health through mental health, and these relationships can be buffered by links to cultural strengths including social support and enculturation.
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Styles, Liana Jessica. "An investigation into the effect of providing employees with a pedometer on overall exercise levels, barriers to physical activity, stress, and satisfaction with work and life." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5326.
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Given the positive benefits of physical activity, workplaces have made many attempts to increase physical activity levels of sedentary employees, typically through the use of an exercise intervention. The main purpose of the present research was to investigate whether the simple act of supplying employees engaged primarily in sedentary office-type work, who were intent on becoming physically active, with a tool capable of measuring walking activity (a pedometer) would enhance their physical activity levels over an eight-week period. As predicted, those who received a pedometer reported a significant increase in physical activity from Time 1 to Time 2, while those who did not reported no change. Furthermore, changes in physical activity levels were found to be negatively correlated with perceived barriers to physical activity at Time 1 and also with changes in perceived barriers over the eight-week period. These findings offer a simple and cost-effective alternative to traditional exercise interventions and highlight the importance of reducing barriers to physical activity to increase success when implementing future physical activity initiatives. No relationships between changes to physical activity and life satisfaction, job satisfaction or work-related stress were found. Implications of these results and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Benz, Joan Clark. "An analysis of the stress, strain and coping levels of public school teachers of seriously emotionally disturbed students." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82899.
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The purpose of this study was to assess the stress, strain and coping levels of public school teachers of seriously emotionally disturbed students. A secondary purpose was to determine if relationships existed between dependent variables stress, strain and coping and teacher experience and teaching assignment variables. The sample consisted of five hundred teachers of seriously emotionally disturbed students in the southeast region of the United States. The usable return rate was 62% with N = 295.
Respondents completed a demographic information survey which provided data for variables sex, year of birth, highest degree earned, degree area, experience in education, community size and present special education teaching setting. The Occupational Environment Scales, Personal Strain Questionnaire and Personal Resources Questionnaire developed by Samuel Osipow and Arnold Spokane (1981) were used to collect data on stress, strain and coping levels. Frequencies, means, standard deviations, medians and modes were computed for all variables. Pearson correlations and t-tests were calculated for teacher experience variables and stress, strain and coping. Chi-square and ANOVA procedures were completed for teacher assignment variables and the dependent variables.
The major finding of the study was that the majority of public school teachers of the seriously emotionally disturbed had low to average stress and strain levels, and above average coping skills. The sample of teachers of seriously emotionally disturbed students who participated in this study do not appear to be as stressed and strained as samples reviewed in other recent studies. This may be due to the nature of the sample.
Older teachers were found slightly less stressed, less strained and possessing slightly higher coping skill levels than younger teachers. There were no significant relationships found between teaching experience variables and dependent variables of stress, strain and coping.
No significant relationship between stress and teaching assignment variables, community size and teaching setting resulted. A relationship was found between strain levels and community size and teaching setting. There was evidence of a relationship between coping skills and community size (urban, suburban, rural), but no relationship was found between coping skill levels and special education teaching setting (resource, self-contained, center, center with therapy).<br>Ed. D.
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Liu, Marcia Mei-Lee. "Asian American/Pacific Islander Psychological and Physical Health Outcomes of Racism and Racial Identity." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3159.
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Thesis advisor: Janet E. Helms<br>Previous theory and research on Asian American/Pacific Islanders' (AAPI) racism experiences indicate that anti-AAPI racism is stressful and related to increased physical and psychological symptoms when the two types of symptoms have been investigated as separate constructs. However, cultural models of AAPIs' health postulate that AAPIs experience distress as interrelated physical and psychological symptoms, but no studies have explored whether racism experiences are similarly related to increases in both physical and psychological symptoms. Also, few studies of AAPI health and racism have included racial identity schemas as psychological constructs that potentially interact with experiences of self-reported anti-Asian racism and health symptoms. To better understand how racism experiences, racial identity, and physical and psychological health are related, the present study examined relationships among frequent and distressing anti-AAPI institutional, cultural, and individual racism experiences, racial identity attitudes, and physical and psychological symptoms. U.S.-born AAPIs of Chinese or Korean heritage (N =203) completed a demographic questionnaire, the People of Color Racial Identity Attitudes Scale (Helms, 2011), the Asian American Race-Related Stress Index (Liang, Li, and Kim, 2004), the Pennebaker Inventory of Limbic Languidness (Pennebaker, 1992), and the Kessler-10 (Kessler et al., 2002). Canonical correlation analyses were used to investigate relationships among the variables. Several patterns were identified. Three patterns were significantly, but not strongly related to being of male gender. They were: (a) frequent and distressing experiences of institutional, cultural, and individual racism experiences were related to increased physical and psychological symptoms; (b) institutional racism experiences were associated with increased levels of Dissonance (racial confusion) and Immersion (own-group idealization); and, (c) high levels of Dissonance and low levels of Internalization were related to more psychological and fewer physical symptoms and being of male gender. One pattern was significantly, but not strongly related to being of female gender, wherein high levels of both Dissonance and Immersion were related to increased levels of physical and psychological symptoms. Finally, one pattern was related to being of Chinese ethnicity, wherein cultural racism experiences were associated with high Conformity (White cultural orientation) and Dissonance. Results were discussed with respect to how researchers can assess racism and racial identity-related distress more accurately by using holistic health measures. Methodological limitations of the study and implications for research and practice are discussed<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education<br>Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
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Thomson, Wendy Ruth. "Living with mental illness, dying of disease : the impact of stress, depression and the self-defeating attitudes on physical health." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2016. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/living-with-mental-illness-dying-of-disease(44339768-28d4-4443-92ba-fe718bf0b882).html.
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The current research explores stress, personality, and the mortality and causes following a depressive illness in a series of seven studies. Study 1 found a positive relationship between the personality dimension of psychoticism and stress in those patients attending a psychiatric day unit who failed to benefit from the treatment. Study 2 explored this relationship further with a nonclinical sample (i.e., commercial airline pilots) and again found a link between personality and stress. Next, the research sought to explore depression more fully in a large data base of patients who had been treated for depression in the early 1960’s followed up many years later. Study 3 investigated the pathways that might link depression and early mortality. This study found such pathways were long term, as well as short-term. Study 4 sought to develop this work further by examining the database for suicide rates. The suicide rates were significantly higher for men in the general population, and for depressed patients of both sexes. However, the results also showed that depression may be a particularly strong predictor of suicide risk among women. Study 5 further explored the data base for physical outcomes of depression, in this case, ischaemic heart disease. Significantly higher rates of death from ischemic heart disease before the age of 70 were found among males with endogenous depression. Study 6 furthered this work by exploring the data base for strokes following depression. The findings showed a positive relationship between depression and strokes later in life and suggested that the identification of depressive symptoms at younger ages may have an impact on the primary prevention of having a stroke in later life. The final study returns in part to the earlier work (studies 1 &2) and explores depression with personality (Neuroticism) and self-perception. Higher levels of neuroticism were statistically significantly related to more negative self perceptions, more stringent self expectations, and greater discrepancy between actual and ideal self perception across multiple domains of behaviour and feelings. Overall, the results of this research program show how personality can influence stress and depression, and that there are numerous long-term health (including mental health) consequences to suffering from depression.
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Lalak, Nadia. "Restorative benefits of the natural environment : enhancing restoration of directed attention & stress reduction through raising levels of cognitive awareness & physical encounter." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6622.
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Philosophy(PhD)<br>Interaction with the natural environment has a vital role in human well-being - physical, social, spiritual and psychological - and yet in the twenty-first century many people lead a way of life totally separated from natural environments. Built environments and the increasing complexity of technological tasks necessitate increased demands for attention and a constant processing of information. Adaptation to such demands can result in depletion of psychological resources leading to stress and mental fatigue. Psychological resources must then be “restored” as they are critical for effective functioning. A review of restorative environments literature suggests there is further scope for enhancing restorative opportunities. A hypothetical model of enhanced restoration is proposed. It posits that an individual assuming a more active role, through raised cognitive awareness and physical encounter in the person-natural environment interaction will experience enhanced restoration in terms of restoration of directed attention and reduction of stress. The research hypotheses are tested using a quantitative field-based pretest-posttest experimental design with a sample of 100 volunteers. Data is collected through computerised objective and subjective measurement scales of attention and affect. Data is analysed through ANOVA. The major finding is that posttest scores improved compared to pretest scores in all 3 attention tests, 2 subjective attention scores and both affect measures, averaged over all 4 intervention groups. This means that the participants’ directed attention improved and they considered themselves to be less stressed regardless of the allocated experimental intervention group. Therefore, the most effective intervention in improving directed attention fatigue and reducing stress was raising an individual’s level of physical encounter with the natural environment. Further research is warranted, into the contribution that an individual can make to enhance the restorative process, and the need for education to raise awareness of the importance of the natural environment as a valuable (health-care) resource.
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Lin, Yu-Zong, and 林育宗. "Effect of Work Stress on Physical and Mental Health." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yh6379.
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碩士<br>義守大學<br>管理碩博士班<br>107<br>As China''s social environment changes, the period of compulsory service is shortened, and the personnel are replenished frequently, the experience of the troops and the effectiveness of the training are not easy to accumulate. In order to construct the military service system that meets the needs of our national defense and social development, the planning of the military service system in China will be based on the parallel system of recruitment. In the transition to the "receipt system", and through a diversified source of manpower, volunteers have gradually become the main force of the current national army, especially the reservists recruited from all walks of life, and based on the organization of the national army, the force of the troops and Factors such as the inheritance of military characteristics make the work pressure on the officers and men of the national army volunteers particularly important and worthy of further discussion. The questionnaire was distributed in a convenient sampling mode. A total of 300 questionnaires were issued, and 280 questionnaires were actually collected. The effective questionnaire recovery rate was 93.33%. The results of this study: 1. The assumption that work stress will have a negative impact on their physical and mental health is established. 2. The assumption that social support will have a negative impact on its work pressure is established. 3. The assumption that social support will have a positive impact on physical and mental health is established. 4. Supervisor support, a hypothetical part that will slow down the negative impact of work stress on physical and mental health. 5. Peer support, a hypothetical part that will slow down the negative impact of work stress on physical and mental health. This study expects to help the National Army to resolve the stress of work, maintain the physical and mental health of the individual, and enhance their willingness to stay through empirical observation.
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Yu, Yueh-Li, and 余月里. "Job Stress, Burnout, and Physical-Mental Health among Clinical Nurses." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ye93hg.
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碩士<br>高雄醫學大學<br>護理學研究所<br>102<br>Background: Clinical nurses have encountered increasing workload and job stress due to the cost containment of the national healthcare insurance policies and the societal changes of patient demands.
Purpose: This study explored the clinical nurses’ job stress, burnout and physical-mental health in a medical center and a regional hospital and job stress and burnout degree of influence on physical and mental health.
Methods: It is a cross-sectional descriptive correlatioal study design. A stratified random sampling by work unit was selected, at the ende a total of 498 full-time employed registered nurses were surveyed. The instruments included personal and work-related characteristics, Effort-Reward Imbalance questionnaire (ERI), Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI), and General Health scale (GH), all of which are in Chinese version. Through SPSS 19.0 software, descriptive statistics, bivariate analyses, chi-square test , one-way ANOVA, t-test, Pearson correlation, and hierarchical regression analyses were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results showed that nursing work was perceived as laborious and highly responsible. Also, there were no statistically significant difference, between the medical center and the regional hospital, on either ERI, CBI, or GH scales. Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that demographics (namely, on-job schooling, religion, work days per month), overcommitment, effort-reward imbalance, and burnout were predictors of physical and mental health of clinical nurses. For nurses’ physical-mental health, the independent explained variances among the predictors, were 9.9% by demographic variables, 24.4% by job stress (including 17.9% from overcommitment and 6.5% from effort-reward imbalance) and 12.5% by burnout.
Conclusions: The results of the study provided important strategic suggestions for human resources management and hospital management.
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Li, Pao-wei, and 李葆瑋. "The Association Study Between Nurses’ Job Stress and Physical-Mental Health." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10907466603718560503.
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碩士<br>慈濟大學<br>護理研究所<br>94<br>The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between nurses’ job stress and physical-mental health. This was a correlation study. Cross-section design and purposive sampling were used. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. The research started from June 29, 2006, and ended to July 4, 2006. There were 220 copies of questionnaires sent out to subjects. Two hundred and eleven copies of questionnaires were returned and the response rate was 95.9%. Using SPSS 10.0 for Windows, the data were analyzed by t-test, one way ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation. The results indicated : 1. Among personal characteristic’s variables, age and position were significantly differences in nurses’ job stress. Age, year income and ward were significantly differences in nurses’ physical-mental health. 2. Nurses’ job stress was negatively correlation with physical-mental health (r=-0.58，p=.000). The results could provide significant reference for nursing administratior in management.
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O'Rourke, Shaun. "The effect of regular physical exercise upon adolescents' stress levels and academic performance." Thesis, 1998. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/21104/1/whole_O%27RourkeShaun1999_thesis.pdf.
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Chen, Bo-Wun, and 陳渤珳. "Evaluation of Mental Stress Levels Using the Fuzzy Entropy and the Associative Petri Net." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7563f7.
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碩士<br>國立臺中科技大學<br>資訊管理系碩士班<br>101<br>In today’s fast-paced and competitive environment, the mental stress which people inherit is growing. The medical reports pointed out that people under long-term stress would directly or indirectly cause mental disorders and cardiovascular disease. People often ignore the symptoms of stress from their own bodies. Therefore, many mental illness are more and more serious and will damage their body.
In the past, many studies used the electrocardiogram to evaluate mental stress. However, physiological signals are doped with much external noise. It can’t be assessed directly under inappropriate processing. Physiological signals are vary with different individuals and the passage of time. It will make the accuracy of mental stress assessment drop significantly. Therefore, how to achieve an effective noise reduction under undestroying the original physiological signal and how to accurately determine individuals’ exposure to mental stress levels are great challenges. Many research extracted physiological features to assess after analyzing time domains or frequency domains. Nevertheless, various physiological of parameters represent different physiological responses. Hence, this research utilized both the time and frequency domains, two aspects of the physiological characteristics, for mental stress diagnosis. It would improve the overall accuracy.
The singular value decomposition method is using for signal decomposition. It can remove outliers value and make signals smooth and also effectively remove external noise without distorting the signal. The minimal entropy principle approach is adopted to obtain with the fuzzy linguistic variables and membership functions variables by building fuzzy membership functions. Associative Petri nets (APNs) have the capability of mathematical logic and graphical representation for modelling and analysing dynamic behaviours. It can infer the level of mental stress with physiological parameters change.
In this study, we proposes an effective model for mental stress assessment. Through the model, we can gain the personal level of mental stress. It can be a basis for clinical diagnosis. Moreover, this research developed a prototype system of mental stress assessment. When the condition of mental stress is abnormal, the assessment system will give a warning for users. In addition, according to the different level of mental stress, it provides a suitable way for users. It will help users avoid causing the mental disorders and cardiovascular disease.
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Looi, Jennifer C. "Noninvasive assessment of mental, physical and respiratory stressors on cardiovascular function." 2007. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.15761.
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Lin, Hui-Wen, and 林惠雯. "The Impact of Work Stress on Individual's Physical and Mental Well-being." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98393998299968604643.
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碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>管理碩士在職專班<br>103<br>The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of work stress on nurse's physical and mental well-being, and the moderating effects of individual's coping strategies and social support. Researcher conducted a two stage cross-sectional investigation, and a self-report questionnaire was used to collect data. A total of 319 nurses of nursing department in a regional teaching hospital were chosen as the subjects, and 251 valid questionnaires were returned, yielding response rates of 78.6%.
The statistical results showed significant variances of different individual demographics not only on mental well-being but also on physical well-being. There are significantly positive relationships between job stress and physical/mental well-beings. In conclusion researcher provided practical suggestions for the teaching hospital or the nurse managers as policy making reference in the future. Only properly handle the nurses’ problems casued by work stress, the purpose of improving the quality of patient care will be able to be reached.
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Hung, Yu-Syuan, and 洪鈺琁. "Stress and Reasons Causing Physical and Mental Health Abnormality of Kindergarten Teachers." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17396041858681436628.
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碩士<br>國立臺東大學<br>幼兒教育學系碩士班<br>103<br>This research focused on the reasons causing abnormal physical and mental health of the kindergarten teachers. To uncover the impact of stress on physical and mental health of teachers, this research mainly studies physical and mental abnormalities cases of present kindergarten teachers caused by work stress. This work adopted case studies, and investigated two suspected physical and mental abnormal teachers of the affiliated kindergarten of an elementary school in northern Taiwan. The research mainly collected data in semi-structured in-depth interviews, and the transcripts were then coded and analyzed. According to the analysis of interviews, the conclusions are summarized as follows: (1)Egocentric personality is the main reason causing teacher’s working stress. (2)Train teachers to have positive thinking. (3)Maintain physical and mental health status.
According this study, the researchers obtained seven revelations as follows: (1)The kindergarten teachers should understand clearly about the nature of kindergarten jobs. (2)Use spirits of mentoring to lead new teachers. (3)Interpersonal and communication skills are important. (4)School administration system should take care more of the physical and mental conditions of teachers. (5)Teachers should have the capability of self-awareness. (6)Whether class collaboration is necessary or not. (7)Future research directions.
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Taylor, Christina Anne. "Psychometric properties of two systematic observation techniques for assessing physical activity levels in children with mental retardation." Thesis, 2003. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2003.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-48). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.
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Sunick, Mary Elizabeth. "Predicting mental and physical health from work and family stress, coping and gender role /." Diss., 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9935180.
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Liou, Sheng-Ci, and 劉昇奇. "Evaluation of Mental Stress Levels Using the Peripherial Blood Flow and the Heart Rate Variability." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12259822217207170221.
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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>電機工程學系碩博士班<br>97<br>Few people do not suffer from mental stress in this high variant and competitive environment of the present day. About 75% diseases are caused by the mental stress from the American Medical Association (AMA) estimated statistics. Thus, learning how to forecast, avoid and reduce the stress source for the modern people is an indispensable technique in daily life.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential mental stress level using the harmonic spectra of the peripherial blood flow and the heart rate variability (HRV). Fifteen healthy participants were classified into three groups: highly stressed (HS) individuals, moderately stressed (MS) individuals, and healthy controls based on the stress forms. The HS individuals showed higher heart-beat rate, higher VLF (very low-frequency power) values of the HRV and lower 5th (C5) pulse harmonic than the control. The results also showed that all physiological signals of the control recovered to nearly the same values as before the mental stress test over a ten-minute rest.
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LIAO, YI-JYUN, and 廖羿竣. "Preliminary study of students with disabilities bullying and physical and mental stress factors." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44521713402949712450.
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碩士<br>國立新竹教育大學<br>特殊教育學系碩士班<br>104<br>In the current social changes violently, but also a sense of the current students with disabilities were bullied News layers of constantly broke several cases of serious bullying of the whole country - the southern special education schools, collective bullying and eight in the German event, in recent years, domestic few bullying studies for students with disabilities to do so for domestic bullying status and possible factors to understand the real necessary place, so the study of long-term tracking database through the special Education (special Needs Education Longitudinal Study, SNELs) where 99 year junior high school student questionnaires, parents and teachers will be part of the questionnaire is divided into three groups of background variables, gender, high occurrence rate disorders, bullying roles classification, four potential variables case (subject to bullying, hyperactive behavior traits, internalized behavior traits, physical and mental stress), to explore how behavioral traits affected by bullying situation and the physical and psychological pressure and multivariable regression model, ANOVA statistical methods through multiple groups and SEM analysis, statistics techniques for analysis, the results show indeed exists between the sexes, high rates of disorder appears different regression models (p <.000), the ANOVA analysis of simple main effects is true, but in between each set of physical and mental stress were no differences, however, in predicting that the groups are on the bullying situation and the predictive value of physical and psychological pressure to varying degrees, and the high occurrence rate of women and non-hyperactive disorder in the inner qualities of behavior prediction by bullying situations and physical and mental stress on the return value, range and high occurrence rate than men in the return value to be twice as large, and the results of such research literature exploring different places, that the greater the degree of male hyperactive traits that supposedly predict bullying situation should have a higher predictive value, but this is only women as previously agreed, hyperactive traits more obvious in the case of the higher forecast bullying by the addition hyperactive behavior prediction by bullying and physical and mental conditions the opposite direction of the pressure, which requires follow-up studies to explore the progress, and this study also suggest that continued research may be used PLS, Mplus, HLM for further analysis, this study limitation is that the centralized school students in special classes missing questionnaire result the results can not be inferred to the centralized special classes school, followed by the background variables - bullying role categorical dependent clickers trend can not be included in the SEM for analysis, so this study in SEM analysis results are not by inference to that bully and other roles being and look forward to the follow-up study to explore accordingly.
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"Mindfulness and Wearing a Fitbit Activity Monitor Increases Levels of Physical Activity." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.24985.
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abstract: Interest in health and wellness has significantly increased in today's society. Living a healthy and active lifestyle is suggested to promote overall physical and psychological well-being. This study explored the effects of wearing a Fitbit Zip activity monitor and the impact of expressing mindfulness on levels of physical activity. It was predicted that expressing mindfulness, as measured by the use of present-tense language during the daily emotional writing task, would moderate the relationship between wearing a Fitbit Zip activity monitor and change in physical activity. Specifically, it was hypothesized daily monitoring would only lead to increased activity among those higher in mindful language. Over the course of five days, participants were asked to wear a Fitbit Zip and to complete a daily questionnaire and writing task at the end of each evening. On the last day of the study, participants completed a follow-up assessment, which suggested that the combination of wearing a Fitbit Zip activity monitor and expressing more mindfulness throughout the week increased levels of physical activity. An important issue for future research is to conduct this study for a longer period of time in order to get more variability in the data. However, despite the limitations of the design, these findings suggest that activity monitoring may be a promising way to promote healthy lifestyle change.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>M.S. Psychology 2014
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Feng, Chen Hsieh, and 陳學風. "The relationship of TV news reporters’ jobstress, physical and mental healthThe relationship of TV news reporters’ job and stress, physical and mental health leisure activities." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15705647000075767745.
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碩士<br>亞洲大學<br>休閒與遊憩管理學系碩士班<br>97<br>There are few countries in the world like Taiwan, which owns small land and population but has plenty TV news channels, including four radio TV stations and seven cable TV news channels. Moreover the time slot for news programs has been increasing from four hours to nineteen hours per day. As a result, under such a competitive commercial environment of media, all the TV company owners and
supervisors could very possibly demand their reporters to hustle to provide exclusive news or fabricate unique news in order to satisfy and stimulate most of the audiences, which are the only way to predominate the advertising market. The primary purpose of this study is to figure out the relationships between the stress, physical and mental health, and the participation in leisure and recreation activities of TV reporters and associated staff whereby we can be clearer about their states of bodies and minds as
well as common diseases resulting from their particular career. Besides we are expecting to find out whether their diseases are caused by work pressures. Would it be able to reduce their work pressures and enhance their physical and mental health
through participating in the leisure and recreation activities? The research objects of this study involve ten renowned domestic TV stations. We deliver 350 questionnaires are delivered after deducting 11 invalid ones, 312 valid questionnaires in total are
recycled. The rate of recycling is 89.14% and use the software of SPSS 12.0 to do statistics analysis. According to the result of this research we discover that in spite of TV reporters’ hard work the feedback which they receive is relatively minimal. They feel stressful with their work and their health is getting worse seriously. The news-composing reporters’ participation in leisure and recreation activities is obviously different from those reporters’ who are in charge photographing and film editing. The manifest difference also exists in their work pressures; the physical and mental health between the above two positions differentiates even more radically. Moreover there are vividly close connections between the work pressures of TV reporters and their physical and mental health; meanwhile the work pressures have great impact on their physical and mental health.
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Chang, Nin-Tzu, and 張念慈. "Teachers’ Job Stress and Physical and Mental Well-Being: Moderating Effect of Recreational Sports." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yyvgr6.
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碩士<br>臺北市立大學<br>運動教育研究所碩士在職專班<br>106<br>Purpose: This study examined the relationship between teachers’ job stress and their physical and mental well-being, and identified the moderating effect of recreational sports participant within the relationship. Methods: Two hundred and twenty-two elementary school teachers were recruited to conduct questionnaire survey by using the stratified sampling method in Taiwan. Results: Male teachers exhibited higher scores in recreational participation, physical health, and emotional comfort than female teachers; whereas, the females scored higher than males in the stress perception of professional knowledge. The married teachers revealed higher involvement in recreational participation than unmarried teachers, and those who carried administrative responsibility had lower scores in physical health than subject and homeroom teachers. Negative relationship was shown between teachers’ job stress and physical and mental health, whereas no moderating effect of recreational sports participation was found within this relationship. Conclusion: Teachers are suggested to seek for appropriate ways to regulate job stress in order to maintain or enhance physical and mental health.
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Ditiso, Baikgopodi. "Caregivers of adults with physical disabilities: perceived stress levels and impact on caregiver-care recipient relationship." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25705.
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A research report in partial fulfilment of Masters of Arts in Social and Psychological Research, School of Human and Community Development, University of Witwatersrand, 2018<br>Caregiving is reported in numerous studies to have adverse effects on caregivers, including
caregiver stress; mental and emotional strain; feelings of burden; and even the risk of
mortality. Specifically for caregivers of adults with physical disabilities (AWPD), it is
appreciated that caregiving is a life-changing experience as major modifications have to be
made. These numerous changes have been reported to expedite the manifestation of stress
that is differently perceived by the caregivers. Caregivers of AWPD are therefore anticipated
to be at high risk of stress as this type of caregiving has been reported to be burdensome. In
South Africa, researchers seem to have overlooked caregivers of adults with physical
disabilities as a group that potentially have specific and unique perceptions in the role of
caregiving. Most importantly the literature seemed limited in presenting how caregivers of
AWPD qualify stress levels. Another paucity observed in the existing literature is that there
are no accounts by caregivers on how the qualified stress levels impact on the relationship
between the caregiver and care recipient. The aim of the current research was to explore
perceived stress levels of caregivers of AWPDs. A second aim was to establish how
caregivers of AWPD perceive stress levels to impact on the caregiver-care recipient
relationship. The results highlighted that caregivers perceived stress levels to be fluctuating
with time and affecting their health. According to the perspectives of the caregivers of
AWPD, stress has either positive or negative impacts on the caregiver-care recipient
communication, cooperation and closeness, differing amongst caregivers.<br>XL2018
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Chen, Huiling, and 陳慧玲. "A Study of the Job Stress, Physical/Mental Health and Job Performance in Emergency Nurses." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r2tv8e.
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碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>公共衛生學系碩士班<br>100<br>The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between the demographic variables of nursing staffs in the emergency room and the staffs’ working stress, physical and mental health and job performance. This survey was performed by questionnaires to the nursing staffs in eight district hospitals in the Taipei City and New Taipei City. We utilized “Demand-Control-Support model”and “Stat-Trait-Anger Inventory（STAI）”as assessment tools. The final valid questionnaires are 146.
There are six significant findings in this study. First, the working load of nursing staffs of emergency room is greater in fixed shift than unfixed shift. Second, 66% of nursing staffs of emergency room have at least three different complaints of physical discomfort. The most three common complaints are low back pain, neck pain and headache. Third, the nursing staffs of emergency room, who are more senior in the hospital, have less anxiety. Forth, the top three of job stresses are “I have to handle any unpredictable situations”,“My duty is heave and very intensive” and “My job is both labored and mental consuming”. Fifth, the workload in emergency room has positive effect in nursing staffs’ physical discomforts and anxiety. Sixth, the valid factors affecting task performance of nursing staffs in emergency room are age and workload. In addition, the valid factors for contextual performance of nursing staffs in emergency room are age, titles, control and social support. The social supports have modulating effect which is the more social support, the more control of work and the better task performance.
The nursing staffs have lots of stresses in the working environment, and the stress will result in negative effects to nursing staffs’ physical and mental health. However, adequate stress has been demonstrated to increase job performance. Thus, the managements of hospital should provide interventions, including increasing benefits, decreasing administration business, increasing attending to establish policy, developing network and support, offering training courses and providing safety, health and mental stress, to decrease the rate of resignation and work load.
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Chin-Lan, Lai, and 賴金蘭. "Leisure time activity participation and job stress to physical and mental health among respiratory therapists." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61775784537721826069.
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碩士<br>國立台北護理學院<br>運動保健研究所<br>98<br>A primary purpose for this study is to understand about the correlation between respiratory therapists’ engagement in leisure activities, job stress, and their physical and mental health by surveying respiratory therapists at medical centers, regional hospitals, local hospitals, and basic-level respiratory care centers in northern Taiwan. Non-random sampling approach was adopted with respiratory therapists as the purposive subjects for the structural questionnaire. Totally 216 out of 230 copies of the questionnaire issued were collected, accounting for a collection rate of 94%. In terms of analysis, the SPSS for Windows 15.0 statistics package software was used to test and analyze the research hypothesis. Data were analyzed with statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and regression analysis.
The study result shows that the respiratory therapists with different personal underlying variables differed from one another significantly in their engagement in leisure activities; the respiratory therapists with different personal underlying variables differed from one another significantly in job stress. Respiratory therapists with different personal underlying variables differed from one another significantly in their physical and mental health. The correlation between their job stress and their physical and mental health was significant; while their engagement in leisure activities and their job stress carried predictive power on their physical and mental health.
Findings from this study can serve as reference for healthcare facilities at all levels in Taiwan in hopes of providing respiratory therapists with a comfortable in-house recreational environment and offering job stress counseling solutions dedicated to their employees. We encourage hospitals to periodically organize leisure activities for respiratory therapists, whereby employee bonding and team cohesion may be enhanced. Respiratory therapists are thus reminded of the importance of spending time actually participating leisure activities for substantial recreational effect. Some activities can reduce the job stress to further improve personal physical and mental health.
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Lee, Hui-Mei, and 李惠美. "Investigation of burnout, mental health, physical health and work stress in dentists of Kaohsiung city." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18519203434312776195.
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碩士<br>高雄醫學大學<br>口腔衛生科學研究所<br>90<br>The issue of “work stress” has been a hot controversy in the recent years. The research indicates that it has influenced in many areas including the mental state, the level of satisfaction of work performance and etc. A balanced mental state can handle any kind of stress during work especially when it comes to require a delicate care. Dentists have been elected to be the most stressful group among the medical care field. On this essay I am going to discuss precisely the relationships between work stress, stress coping, and work related fatigue.
In the questionnaires of 164 qualified dentists (for those who has had their licenses at least six months) in the city of Kaohsiung show two main results:(1) Occupational Stress Indicator (OSI), (2) Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). According to OSI, there are charts of job satisfaction, physical & mental health, sources of stress, and stress coping. As for MBI, it includes the charts of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and person achievement.
According to my research, the most stressful people among the dentists are those who are young and single female resident dentists, fairly new in the battle, usually hard to cope with the stress from work. The bigger the organization, the greater the pressure . After a careful analysis, the interesting results are the following:(1) emotional exhaustion is positively related to work stress but negatively related to stress coping, (2) job satisfaction & mental state is negatively related to work stress, but positively related to stress coping, (3) personal achievement is also positively related to stress coping, (4) depersonalization is negatively related to stress coping, (5) sources of stress has no relation with stress coping.