Pre-Departure Training and Personal Resources: How it Affects Acculturative Stress?

Mini review: Stress and how it affects reproduction

Chronic anxiety, depression or physical exertion-associated stress consistently activates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Each individual component of the HPA axis, such as CRH, ACTH, β-endorphin or glucocorticoid exerts deleterious effect on the hypo-thalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis and subsequently leads to reproductive failure. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secret...

How Hiring Affects IT Performance

Seasickness, How It Affects Sailors and

Seasickness or Mal de Mer is a very unpleasant experience, and most sailors, if all, had to cope with it. In its extreme form it leaves the victim unwilling to perform any task, even to assist in his or her own rescue. Motion sickness or cinetose is dependent on the magnitude of ship motion, but how it affects human operator is not unequivocal. We will review the different factors, environmenta...

Biometeorology: What It Is and How It Affects Our Health

Ahallmark of holistic medicine is that its practices take into account an individual’s total internal, social, and external environment when consider ing disease prevention and treatment. The interdisciplinary science of biometeorology studies the effects of weather and cl imate on organisms’ adaptation mechanisms and the consequences of human and natural impacts on the atmosphere. Although the...

Acculturative stress and Latino depression: the mediating role of behavioral and cognitive resources.

Although research has found that acculturative stress is significantly associated with adverse psychological adjustment among Latinos, the mechanism by which this relationship exists is not clearly understood. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of behavioral and cognitive resources--active coping and self-efficacy, respectively--as mediators of the relationship between accult...