L307 Stress, stress-coping and health condition in female workers

Stress and Coping Mechanisms in Female Primates

Stress and coping among older workers.

Age-related changes in physical and cognitive abilities can raise adaptive challenges for older working adults. Older workers exhibit considerable capacity to manage and cope with the stress of job and environmental demands, but at some point, many can become overwhelmed, and find themselves at increased risk for health consequences, injury, disability, and diminished productivity. Older worker...

Work Stress , Coping , and Substance Use Among Female Nurses

As women enter the work force, they are exposed to new or additional sources of stress, which may result in substance use. This chapter presents results from a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded research project on work stress, coping, and substance use among a regional sample of female nurses. It includes a summary of data on the prevalence of substance use among these nurses and a...

Stress Assessment in Health Care Workers

To assess the risk from exposure to occupational stress and burnout in health care workers (HCW), a cross-sectional study was planned to compare objective data that can represent potential job stressors in hospital wards and subjective symptoms reported by the workers. Medical doctors, nurses and ancillary workers of the Internal Medicine Wards of a large public hospital in Northern Italy parti...

Research in stress, coping, and health: theoretical and methodological issues.

In recent years, research interest in stress, coping, and health has grown considerably. This growing interest has produced a substantial body of literature and, concurrently, an extensive variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. While this research activity has significantly increased our understanding of the impacts of stress and coping on health, it also has produced considerabl...