Perceived Demands of Schooling, Stress and Mental Health: Changes from Grade 6 to Grade 9 as a Function of Gender and Cognitive Ability
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The link between perceived demands of school, stress and mental health in relation to gender is complex.
The study examined, with two waves of longitudinal data at age 13 and age 16, how changes in perceived academic demands relate to changes in perceived stress, taking into account gender and cognitive ability, and to investigate how these factors affect the level of psychosomatic and depressive symptoms at the age of 16.
A nationally representative sample including about 9000 individuals from the Swedish longitudinal Evaluation Through Follow up database born in 1998 was included.
A growth modelling approach was...
Source: Stress and Health - August 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joanna Giota, Jan ‐Eric Gustafsson Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Evaluating an Organizational ‐Level Occupational Health Intervention in a Combined Regression Discontinuity and Randomized Control Design
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Organizational‐level occupational health interventions have great potential to improve employees' health and well‐being. However, they often compare unfavourably to individual‐level interventions. This calls for improving methods for designing, implementing and evaluating organizational interventions. This paper presents and discusses the regression discontinuity design because, like the randomized control trial, it is a strong summative experimental design, but it typically fits organizational‐level interventions better. The paper explores advantages and disadvantages of a regression discontinuity design ...
Source: Stress and Health - August 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: By Ole H. S ørensen Tags: Special Issue Paper Source Type: research
Are We All in the Same Boat? The Role of Perceptual Distance in Organizational Health Interventions
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The study investigates how agreement between leaders' and their team's perceptions influence intervention outcomes in a leadership‐training intervention aimed at improving organizational learning. Agreement, i.e. perceptual distance was calculated for the organizational learning dimensions at baseline. Changes in the dimensions from pre‐intervention to post‐intervention were evaluated using polynomial regression analysis with response surface analysis. The general pattern of the results indicated that the organizational learning improved when leaders and their teams agreed on the level of organizational lear...
Source: Stress and Health - August 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Henna Hasson, Ulrica Thiele Schwarz, Karina Nielsen, Susanne Tafvelin Tags: Special Issue Paper Source Type: research
Capturing the Active Ingredients of Multicomponent Participatory Organizational Stress Interventions Using an Adapted Study Design
This study includes longitudinal data (two assessments) with added process measures at time 2 gathered from three complex participatory intervention projects in Canada in a hospital and a university. Structural equation modelling was used to explore the specific working mechanisms of particular interventions on stress outcomes. Results showed that higher exposure to interventions aiming to modify tasks and working conditions reduced demands and improved social support, but not job control, which in turn, reduced psychological distress. Exposure to interventions aiming to improve relationships was not related to psychosocia...
Source: Stress and Health - August 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Caroline Biron, Hans Ivers, Jean ‐Pierre Brun Tags: Special Issue Paper Source Type: research
The Dynamic Integrated Evaluation Model (DIEM): Achieving Sustainability in Organizational Intervention through a Participatory Evaluation Approach
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Recently, there have been calls to develop ways of using a participatory approach when conducting interventions, including evaluating the process and context to improve and adapt the intervention as it evolves over time. The need to integrate interventions into daily organizational practices, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful implementation and sustainable changes, has also been highlighted. We propose an evaluation model—the Dynamic Integrated Evaluation Model (DIEM)—that takes this into consideration. In the model, evaluation is fitted into a co‐created iterative intervention process, in whic...
Source: Stress and Health - August 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ulrica Thiele Schwarz, Robert Lundmark, Henna Hasson Tags: Special Issue Paper Source Type: research
Financial Insecurity: Putting our Money where our Mouth is
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Source: Stress and Health - August 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tahira M. Probst Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
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Source: Stress and Health - August 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Lower cortisol response in high ‐resilient caregivers of people with autism: the role of anger
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Caring for an offspring with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been related to high stress levels and health disturbances. However, a protective effect against these negative health outcomes has been described in high‐resilient caregivers. In this context, the main aim of the present study was to assess the association between resilient coping and cortisol response to acute stress in caregivers of people with ASD. Furthermore, the study aimed to explore the mediating role of anger in this association. We exposed 40 caregivers of people with ASD to an acute psychosocial stressor in the laboratory. Salivary co...
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: N. Ruiz ‐Robledillo, A. Romero‐Martínez, L. Moya‐Albiol Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Work stressors, sleep quality, and alcohol ‐related problems across deployment: A parallel process latent growth modeling approach among Navy members
This study examined how work stressors were associated with sleep quality and alcohol‐related problems among U.S. Navy members over the course of deployment. Participants were 101 U.S. Navy members assigned to an Arleigh Burke‐class destroyer who experienced an 8‐month deployment after Operational Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. Approximately 6 weeks prior to deployment, 6 weeks after deployment, and 6 months reintegration, participants completed measures that assessed work stressors, sleep quality, and alcohol‐related problems. A piecewise latent growth model was conducted in which the structural path...
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adrian J. Bravo, Michelle L. Kelley, Brittany F. Hollis Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Investigating the work –family conflict and health link: Repetitive thought as a mechanism
This study provides support that repetitive thought is one potential mechanism of how work–family conflict can take a toll on psychological and physical health. Findings are discussed in relation to improving workplace policies to improve the health of working adults managing work–family conflict. (Source: Stress and Health)
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kelly D. Davis, Judith Gere, Martin J. Sliwinski Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Organizational Health Interventions: Advances in Evaluation Methodology
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Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maria Karanika ‐Murray, Caroline Biron, Per Øystein Saksvik Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Surface acting and exhaustion: The moderating role of eudaimonia
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Surface acting (faking emotions) is one of the stressors experienced by contact employees during service interactions with customers, and it has implications for workers' exhaustion. One challenge of research and practice is to identify moderators that help to better understand the positive relationships between surface acting and exhaustion. The present study proposes the two dimensions of eudaimonia beliefs about well‐being (self‐development and contribution‐to‐others beliefs) as moderators between surface acting and exhaustion. We performed regression analyses with 817 contact employees working in 118 h...
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lumini ţa Pătraş, Vicente Martínez‐Tur, Esther Gracia, Carolina Moliner Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
Reaping the benefits of meaningful work: The mediating versus moderating role of work engagement
This study examined whether meaningful work may improve one's quality of life outside of the workplace (i.e., work‐to‐life enrichment). More importantly, we proposed and tested competing hypotheses regarding the role of work engagement in the relationship between meaningful work and work‐to‐life enrichment. Specifically, we investigated whether work engagement served as a mediator of this relationship, as suggested by the job demands‐resources model, or instead a moderator, as suggested by conservation of resources theory. Two‐wave survey data were collected from 194 respondents recruited via Amazon Mechanical ...
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew J. Johnson, Lixin Jiang Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research
The Effect of Stress Management Training Program on Stress Coping Styles among the Adolescents in Prison in Turkey
This study was performed to determine the effects of a stress management training program that was administered to adolescents in prison. This was a semi‐experimental study that used pretests and posttests in controlled groups; it was performed between June 2012 and March 2013 in a closed prison for children and adolescents. The study was completed with the participation of 73 adolescents (36 in the experimental group and 37 in the control group). Adolescent Lifestyle Profile scale and the Stress Coping Styles Scale were used as the data collection tools. The Stress Management Training Program was developed by the resear...
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Özlem Öztürk, Ayşe F. Ocakçı Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Economic Stressors and Psychological Distress: Exploring Age Cohort Variation in the Wake of the Great Recession
This study examined processes linking age cohort, economic stressors, coping strategies and two indicators of psychological distress (i.e. depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms). Structural equation models were conducted utilizing data from a national survey that was undertaken in order to understand life change consequences of the period of economic downturn from 2007 to 2009 known as the Great Recession. Findings revealed that the associations between economic stressors and symptoms of both depression and anxiety were significantly greater for members of the millennial cohort compared with baby boomers. These effects ...
Source: Stress and Health - July 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Robyn Lewis Brown, Judith A. Richman, Kathleen M. Rospenda Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
