BACKGROUND Despite advancements in our understanding of the importance of stress reduction in achieving good health, we still only have limited insight into the impact of stress on cellular function. Recent studies have suggested that exposure to prolonged psychological stress may alter an individual's physiological responses, and contribute to morbidity and mortality. This paper presents an ov...

Available online 10 November 2008 Resilience has been conceptualized in several ways, including a disposition that promotes positive outcomes in general and successful adaptation in the face of challenging or stressful circumstances. Using Wagnild and Young's [Wagnild, G. M., & Young, H. M. (1993). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Resilience Scale. Journal of Nursing Measurement, ...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to review how personality characteristics contribute to the onset, maintenance or modulation of fibromyalgia. METHOD The databases Medline and PsychINFO were examined from 1967 to 2012 to identify studies that investigated associations between fibromyalgia and personality. Search terms included fibromyalgia and personality, trait psychology, characteristics and individual ...

Job stress has now become one of the most significant health and safety issues in the workplace and one of the least understood areas of organizational cost. A cross-sectional study to assess job strain and dissatisfaction in lecturers of the School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) was undertaken between August 2001 and May 2002. The original English version of the Job Conte...

Title of Dissertation: COPING WITH MULTIPLE STRESSORS: A CLOSER LOOK AT PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG RACIAL MINORITIES Min Ji Yang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Matthew J. Miller, Department of Counseling Psychology This study examined a comprehensive stress and coping model in a sample of 414 racial minority participants in the U.S. Specifically, thi...

With a national sample of 552 transgender adults, the present study tested hypotheses drawn from minority stress theory and positive psychology research on stress-ameliorating processes. Specifically, the present study examined the relations of minority stressors (i.e., antitransgender discrimination, stigma awareness, and internalized transphobia) and individualand group-level buffers (i.e., r...

Every day individuals encounter stressors. These daily stressors, or hassles, have been the focus of much research because they have been shown to be important indicators of psychological distress (e.g., Kanner, Coyne, Schaefer, & Lazarus, 1981; Monroe, 1983). In fact, it is argued that the cumulative nature of these general hassles makes them a stronger predictor of psychological health than m...

BACKGROUND Stress in health care professionals may reflect both the work and appraisal of work and impacts on the individuals, their patients, colleagues and managers. PURPOSE The purpose of the present study is to examine physiological and psychological effects of stressors (tasks) and theory-based perceptions of work stressors within and between nurses in real time. METHODS During two wor...