BACKGROUND Teaching is considered a highly stressful occupation. Burnout is a negative affective response occurring as a result of chronic work stress. While the early theories of burnout focused exclusively on work-related stressors, recent research adopts a more integrative approach where both environmental and individual factors are studied. Nevertheless, such studies are scarce with teacher...

Vocational interests demonstrate high rank-order stability during childhood and adolescence. However, few studies have investigated the development of vocational interests into adulthood. The present study examined rank-order and profile stability, mean-level and correlated change, and individual differences in change in RIASEC scores across 20 years of adulthood. In addition, life events were ...

The flow of time is experienced by humans although the exact nature of time is not well understood. The importance of time in humans' life is not in dispute and is reflected by several dimensions like duration, which is best representing the naïve meaning of time. Psychological time serves several important functions which are essential for being able to act and survive in a dynamic environment...

background and purpose: providing health services in health centers is a challenging and risky job. so that, realization of quality, performance, efficiency, and fairness in the provision of such services needs a proper condition to ensure that the stress experienced by the personnel is minimized. the present study is a survey of the factors effective on job stress among the nurses working in t...

background: mental disorders have an important relationship with work conditions. excessive workload, laborers needs and expectations ignorance, harmful physical agents, noise, poor lightning and bad work atmosphere result increasing stress and job dissatisfaction in workers . methods: this descriptive-analytical survey implemented in order to investigate stress and job satisfaction rate of one...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between job stress with personality characteristics and organizational commitment. this study is descriptive and correlational. the study population comprised all nurses in 13-aban hospital of ghods city. the sample group consisted of 120 nurses who were selected through convenience sampling. research instruments were hse job stress ques...

background: occupational stress takes place in relationship between person and environment. it’s created by three major factors including characteristics personal, working conditions, relationships between them. stress is caused by psychological imbalances and has different outcomes on health. this study examined the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction in health care staff. met...

background: occupational stress occurs when job needs do not comply with the abilities, support, and needs of the employee. in addition to negatively affecting the physical and mental health of individuals, occupational stress can reduce their efficiency and productivity in organizations. this paper investigated the rate of job stress and its relation to absenteeism in workers. methods: in this...

BACKGROUND Stress and stress-related illnesses are increasing among medical specialists. This threatens the quality of patient care. In this study we investigated (a) levels of job stress and job satisfaction among medical specialists, (b) factors contributing to stress and satisfaction and (c) the effect of stress and satisfaction on burnout. METHODS A questionnaire was mailed to a random sa...