Extending the two ‐process model of burnout in child protection workers: The role of resilience in mediating burnout via organizational factors of control, values, fairness, reward, workload, and community relationships
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Burnout has been disproportionally reported in child protection social work. This paper presents data from 162 child protection staff in Northern Ireland, assessed for burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Path models were estimated, based on an extension of the two‐process demands and values model (Leiter, ) to include additional measures of resilience using the Resilience Scale‐14, as well as perceived rewards and sense of community from the Areas of Work Life Scale (Leiter, ). Optimal model fit was achieved by modelling resilience as a mediator of the relationship between organizational factors of co...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paula McFadden, John Mallett, Michael Leiter Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The reliability and validity of three ‐item screening measures for burnout: Evidence from group‐employed health care practitioners in upstate New York
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We investigate the psychometric validity and reliability of three‐item screening measures for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal achievement comprising an abbreviated version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory®. Despite its utilization in multiple studies, the shortened instrument has not been sufficiently validated in diverse settings, populations, and organizational contexts. We examine its ability to assess burnout accruing from patient care practice in a rural, underserved area. Utilizing data from a cross‐sectional survey of 308 rural‐based medical professionals, we investigate how the...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Moira R. Riley, David C. Mohr, Anthony C. Waddimba Tags: SHORT COMMUNICATION Source Type: research
The interactive role of eating regulation and stress in the prediction of weight ‐related outcomes among college students
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The interactive role of eating regulation and perceived stress on weight‐related outcomes was examined among 319 sophomore year college students (110 males and 209 females). Moderated regressions were used to examine interactions between stress and eating regulation on study outcomes including body mass index (BMI) and body fat. Eating regulation moderated associations between stress and BMI and body fat outcomes. Students reporting high perceived stress, high autonomous eating regulation, low controlled regulation, and low amotivation exhibited higher outcomes (BMI and body fat) than those with similar eating r...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dilbur D. Arsiwalla, Amanda W. Arnold, Karla P. Teel, Pamela V. Ulrich, Sareen S. Gropper Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Exploring daily affective changes in university students with a mindful positive reappraisal intervention: A daily diary randomized controlled trial
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Brief and cost‐effective interventions focused on emotion regulation techniques can buffer against stress and foster positive functioning. Mindfulness and positive reappraisal are two techniques that can mutually enhance one another to promote well‐being. However, research testing the effectiveness of interventions combining mindfulness and reappraisal is lacking. The current pilot examined the effect of a combined mindful‐reappraisal intervention on daily affect in a 5‐day diary study with 106 university students. Participants were randomized to a mindful‐reappraisal intervention (n = 36), a reapprais...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ekaterina Pogrebtsova, Jacqueline Craig, Alexandra Chris, Deirdre O'Shea, M. Gloria Gonz ález‐Morales Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Stress and Mental Health in College Students
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The goal of this short‐term longitudinal study was to examine whether adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) could be used to identify college students at risk for mental health problems and whether current level of stress mediates the relationship between ACEs and mental health. Data on ACEs and mental health (depression, anxiety and suicidality) were collected at the beginning of the semester, and data on current stressors and mental health were collected toward the end of the semester (n = 239). Findings indicated that ACEs predicted worsening of mental health over the course of a semester and suggested curre...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Canan Karatekin Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Trajectories of well ‐being during an exercise randomized controlled trial: The role of exposure and exercise experiences
We examined how process factors were related to the development of various indicators of well‐being during the course of an exercise randomized controlled trial aimed at reducing fatigue among university students. We investigated (a) whether actual exposure to the exercise sessions was related to differences in students' trajectories of well‐being, (b) the minimally required exposure to exercise needed before well‐being started to differ between the intervention and control condition, and (c) whether exercise experiences (enjoyment and detachment) were related to differences in well‐being trajectories. University s...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Juriena D. Vries, Madelon L.M. Hooff, Sabine A.E. Geurts, Michiel A.J. Kompier Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Searching for a job: Cardiac responses to acute stress and the mediating role of threat appraisal in young people
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Being unemployed and looking for a job has become a source of stress for many people in several European countries. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of this stressful situation on the individuals' psychophysiological stress responses. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of being an unemployed job seeker on cognitive threat appraisal and cardiac responses to a psychosocial stressor. We exposed a group of unemployed job seekers (N = 42) and a matched group of unemployed non‐job seekers (N = 40) to a standardized social stressor in form of job interview, the Trier Social Str...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: M. Zandara, M. Garcia ‐Lluch, C. Villada, V. Hidalgo, A. Salvador Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Misfit of organizational and personal work standards and its longitudinal effect on physicians' depressiveness
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The misfit of organizational and personal work standards and its relationship to health is an issue that has rarely been investigated in hospital physicians. In particular, compensatory factors for the negative effects of a misfit of organizational and personal work standards remain unknown. Our longitudinal study investigated whether autonomous experiences at work and during leisure time compensate for the effects of a misfit of organizational and personal work standards on depressive complaints. Data were collected through surveys of German hospital physicians. Two surveys were conducted with a time lag of 12 m...
Source: Stress and Health - April 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Grit Tanner, Eva Bamberg, Maren Kersten, Agnessa Kozak, Albert Nienhaus Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Do cognitive distortions explain the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and emotional and behavioural problems in secondary school children?
This study was aimed at assessing the mediating role of cognitive distortions in the longitudinal relationship between life adversity and two dimensions of psychopathology, namely, emotional and behavioural problems in 247 secondary school children attending three state secondary schools in one county in the South East of England. An increase in life adversity was associated with an increase in cognitive distortions, which was in turn related to a higher number of symptoms reflecting behavioural issues. In terms of practical applications, an effort to protect children from further exposure to adverse life events could repr...
Source: Stress and Health - February 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Constantina Panourgia, Amanda Comoretto Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
A self ‐determination approach to the understanding of the impact of physical activity on depressive symptoms
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The purpose was to test a new motivational sequence. It was hypothesized that more autonomous forms of motivation would predict the intensity of physical activity (PA), which in turn, would predict depressive symptoms. In order to evaluate self‐determined motivation, the Self‐Determination Index (SDI) was used. Because the reasons that can lead a person to engage in walking, moderate PA, or vigorous PA may be different, 3 independent self‐determination indexes were measured (SDIWalking, SDIModerate, and SDIVigorous). It was also measured the metabolic equivalent of task values (METs) for walking, moderate, a...
Source: Stress and Health - February 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jos é Antonio Cecchini, Javier Fernández‐Río, Antonio Méndez‐Giménez, Alejandro Carriedo, José Antonio Arruza Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
U.S. reserve soldiers' combat exposure and intimate partner violence: Not more common but it is more violent
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Combat exposure's influence on intimate partner violence (IPV) in reserve soldiers is not well understood. This work examines combat exposure's influence on IPV in U.S. Army Reserve/National Guard soldiers and partners. Data are from Operation: SAFETY, a longitudinal study of U.S. Army Reserve/National Guard soldiers and partners. Logistic regression models examined odds of sexual aggression, physical aggression, and physical injury with combat exposure, controlling for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, marital satisfaction, and age. Combat exposure was associated with greater physical injury, despite no ass...
Source: Stress and Health - February 14, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Cercone Heavey, D. Lynn Homish, Erin Anderson Goodell, Gregory G. Homish Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Stress and Health - February 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Ethical considerations for sleep intervention in organizational psychology research
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Over the past several years, interest into the role of sleep in the workplace has grown. The theoretical shift from research questions examining sleep as an outcome to placing sleep as the independent variable has increased experimental approaches to manipulating sleep in organizational studies. This is an exciting trend that is likely to continue in the organizational sciences. However, sleep experimentation can also pose special challenges for organizational researchers unaccustomed to sleep science. In this commentary, I discuss five ethical considerations of conducting negative sleep interventions in organizat...
Source: Stress and Health - February 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Larissa K. Barber Tags: COMMENTARY ‐ INVITED Source Type: research
PTSD and PTG among Israeli mothers: Opposite facets of exposure to terrorism
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The aim of the this study was to test the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), posttraumatic growth (PTG), and coping strategies among Israeli mothers with prolonged exposure to rocket missiles. One hundred fifty‐two mothers, from the Western Negev region of Israel, took part in the study.
Respondents were affected by prolonged exposure to missile attacks even when they themselves had not been hit or injured. A positive correlation was found between PTSD and PTG. Problem‐focused coping was found to mediate the relationship between PTSD and PTG; the higher the PTSD, the greater the use of p...
Source: Stress and Health - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mally Shechory Bitton, Avital Laufer Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Stress and adult smartphone addiction: Mediation by self ‐control, neuroticism, and extraversion
This study employed descriptive statistics and correlation analysis to examine the influence of stress on smartphone addiction as well as the mediating effects of self‐control, neuroticism, and extraversion using 400 men and women in their 20s to 40s followed by structural equation analysis. Our findings indicate that stress had a significant influence on smartphone addiction, and self‐control mediates the influence of stress on smartphone addiction. As stress increases, self‐control decreases, which subsequently leads to increased smartphone addiction. Self‐control was confirmed as an important factor in the preve...
Source: Stress and Health - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hea ‐Young Cho, Dai Jin Kim, Jae Woo Park Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
