The relationship between an orientation to the future and an orientation to the past: The role of future clarity
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Some research shows that people who often contemplate their future tend to be healthier. Yet the burgeoning literature on mindfulness demonstrates that people who are more attuned to their immediate experiences also enjoy many benefits. To reconcile these principles, many scholars recommend that people should distribute their attention, somewhat evenly, across the past, present, and future—but have not clarified how people should achieve this goal. We test the possibility that people who perceive their future as vivid and certain, called future clarity, might be able to both orient their attention to the future ...
Source: Stress and Health - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Simon A. Moss, Samuel G. Wilson, Melanie Irons, Carmen Naivalu Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Secondary traumatic stress and secondary posttraumatic growth in a sample of Dutch police family liaison officers
This study investigated secondary traumatic stress (STS) and secondary posttraumatic growth (SPG) in a sample of Dutch police family liaison officers (N = 224). Our study had two aims: (a) to identify potential risk and protective factors for STS and (b) to investigate the association between STS and SPG. None of the risk (caseload and a personal trauma history) and protective factors (age, work experience, and support by supervisors and coworkers) identified in previous research correlated with STS. However, a small positive association was found between STS and SPG. In the discussion section we warn against the use of ...
Source: Stress and Health - January 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: M.J.J. Kunst, M.C. Saan, L.J.A. Bollen, K.F. Kuijpers Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Cognitive processing in the aftermath of relationship dissolution: Associations with concurrent and prospective distress and posttraumatic growth
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Non‐marital romantic relationship dissolution is amongst the most stressful life events experienced by young adults. Yet, some individuals experience posttraumatic growth following relationship dissolution. Little is known about the specific and differential contribution of trait‐like and event‐specific cognitive processing styles to each of these outcomes. A longitudinal design was employed in which trait‐like (brooding and reflection) and dissolution‐specific (intrusive and deliberate) cognitive processing was examined as predictors of growth (Posttraumatic Growth Inventory) and distress (Breakup Distr...
Source: Stress and Health - December 15, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adriana Palacio ‐González, David A. Clark, Lucia F. O'Sullivan Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Stress and Health - December 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Modifying the Sleep Treatment Education Program for Students to include technology use (STEPS ‐TECH): Intervention effects on objective and subjective sleep outcomes
This study examined whether the Sleep Treatment Education Program for Students—modified to include information regarding managing technology use (STEPS‐TECH)—helps improve both subjective and objective sleep outcomes among university students. Results of an experimental study among 78 university students showed improvements in objective indicators of sleep quantity (total sleep time) and sleep quality (less awakenings) during the subsequent week for students in the STEPS‐TECH intervention group compared to a control group. Exploratory analyses indicated that effects were driven by improvements in weekend days immed...
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Larissa K. Barber, Maria S. Cucalon Tags: SHORT COMMUNICATION Source Type: research
Psychosocial safety climate, emotional exhaustion, and work injuries in healthcare workplaces
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Preventing work injuries requires a clear understanding of how they occur, how they are recorded, and the accuracy of injury surveillance. Our innovation was to examine how psychosocial safety climate (PSC) influences the development of reported and unreported physical and psychological workplace injuries beyond (physical) safety climate, via the erosion of psychological health (emotional exhaustion). Self‐report data (T2, 2013) from 214 hospital employees (18 teams) were linked at the team level to the hospital workplace injury register (T1, 2012; T2, 2013; and T3, 2014). Concordance between survey‐reported a...
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Amy Jane Zadow, Maureen Frances Dollard, Sarven Savia Mclinton, Peter Lawrence, Michelle Rae Tuckey Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
College instruction is not so stress free after all: A qualitative and quantitative study of academic entitlement, uncivil behaviors, and instructor strain and burnout
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The vast majority of today's college students are millennials, who have traits of confidence, tolerance, but also of entitlement and narcissism (Twenge, 2006). Therefore, college instructors face a unique challenge: dealing with the requests from academically entitled students, who have unreasonable expectations of receiving academic success, regardless of performance (Chowning & Campbell, 2009). We conducted two studies to examine whether student academic entitlement would increase instructors' strain and burnout via uncivil behaviors. A qualitative inquiry asked 136 instructors with college‐teaching experi...
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lixin Jiang, Thomas M. Tripp, Phan Y. Hong Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Burnout and depressive symptoms in teachers: Factor structure and construct validity of the Maslach Burnout inventory ‐educators survey among elementary and secondary school teachers in Hungary
This study validated the Hungarian version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory–Educators Survey on a sample of n = 211 elementary and secondary teachers. To test factorial validity, we ran a series of confirmatory analysis with eight models. The best fitting model was the bifactor model with general burnout and three specific factors: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. Analyzing the covariates revealed that gender and age were not associated with burnout, but depressive symptoms and overcommitment had a significant relationship with general burnout, and overcommitment was related to emot...
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: R éka Szigeti, Noémi Balázs, Réka Bikfalvi, Róbert Urbán Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Strength through adversity: Moderate lifetime stress exposure is associated with psychological resilience in breast cancer survivors
In conclusion, moderate stress exposure was associated with indicators of psychological resilience among breast cancer survivors, supporting stress exposure as a key factor influencing adjustment to breast cancer and providing evidence for stress‐induced resilience in a novel population. (Source: Stress and Health)
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Larissa N. Dooley, George M. Slavich, Patricia I. Moreno, Julienne E. Bower Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Stress system dysregulation in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder associated with comorbid depression
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Because chronic stress is an important risk factor for anxiety states and depressive disorders, we studied hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathetic system activity via changes in cortisol and alpha amylase activity levels in pediatric generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients (n = 26) with comorbid depression and a healthy comparison group (n = 26). Morning plasma cortisol and diurnal profiles of salivary cortisol and salivary alpha amylase (sAA) activity were assessed, also reactivity of HPA‐axis, sAA activity, and heart rate following a psychosocial stressor (Trier Social Stress Test...
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: R. Funke, A. Eichler, J. Distler, Y. Golub, O. Kratz, G.H. Moll Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Physical fitness level affects perception of chronic stress in military trainees
This study investigated whether physical fitness affects the perception of chronic stress in military trainees while controlling for established factors influencing stress perception. The sample consisted of 273 men (20.23 ± 1.12 years, 73.56 ± 10.52 kg, 1.78 ± 0.06 m). Physical fitness was measured by progressive endurance run (maximum oxygen uptake; VO2max), standing long jump, seated shot put, trunk muscle strength, and one leg standing test. Perceived stress was measured using the Perceived Stress Questionnaire in Weeks 1 and 11 of basic military training (BMT). VO2max and four influencing variables (percei...
Source: Stress and Health - November 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Carolin Tuch, Thomas Teubel, Roberto La Marca, Lilian Roos, Hubert Annen, Thomas Wyss Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Hardiness, avoidance coping, and alcohol consumption in war veterans: A moderated ‐mediation study
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Military personnel often engage in excessive alcohol use after returning from deployments. Thus far, research has paid scant attention to personality factors that may increase or diminish the risk for increased alcohol consumption in this population. The present study explores how psychological hardiness, avoidance coping, and stress exposure may interact to influence alcohol consumption patterns in soldiers following deployment. U.S. Army National Guard soldiers (N = 357) were surveyed shortly after returning from combat operations in Afghanistan. Conditional process analysis was used to test for mediation and ...
Source: Stress and Health - November 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paul T. Bartone, Bjorn H. Johnsen, Jarle Eid, Sigurd W. Hystad, Jon C. Laberg Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Appraisal of transplant ‐related stressors, coping strategies, and psychosocial adjustment following kidney transplantation
This study examined the relations between appraisal of transplant‐related stressors, coping, and adjustment dimensions following kidney transplantation (KT). Two models were tested: (1) the main effects model proposing that stress appraisal and coping strategies are directly associated with adjustment dimensions; and (2) the moderating model of stress proposing that each coping strategy interacts with stress appraisal. Importantly, there is a lack of research examining the two models simultaneously among recipients of solid organ transplantation.
A total of 174 KT recipients completed the questionnaires. Predictors of po...
Source: Stress and Health - November 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Renato Pisanti, Caterina Lombardo, Aleksandra Luszczynska, Luca Poli, Linda Bennardi, Luca Giordanengo, Pasquale Bartolomeo Berloco, Cristiano Violani Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Latent classes of resilience and psychological response among only ‐child loss parents in China
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Only‐child loss parents in China recently gained extensive attention as a newly defined social group. Resilience could be a probable solution out of the psychological dilemma. Using a sample of 185 only‐child loss people, this study employed latent class analysis (a) to explore whether different classes of resilience could be identified, (b) to determine socio‐demographic characteristics of each class, and (c) to compare the depression and the subjective well‐being of each class. The results supported a three‐class solution, defined as ‘high tenacity‐strength but moderate optimism class’, ‘modera...
Source: Stress and Health - October 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: An ‐ni Wang, Wen Zhang, Jing‐ping Zhang, Fei‐fei Huang, Man Ye, Shu‐yu Yao, Yuan‐hui Luo, Zhi‐hua Li, Jie Zhang, Pan Su Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Psychological distress following crime victimization: An exploratory study from an agency perspective
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Deficits in recognition of suffering play a significant role in the etiology of psychological distress in crime victims. However, given the preliminary status of the literature, it seems necessary to take other factors into account as well. Starting from an agency perspective, this study explored three such factors: negative self‐attributions, peritraumatic distress, and early posttraumatic emotions. More specifically, this study explored whether the association between recognition deficits and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms observed in other studies could be replicated and, if so, whether this as...
Source: Stress and Health - October 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: M.J.J. Kunst, N.N. Koster Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
