Health of organization’s employees is dependent on psychosocial factors such as job stress, considerably. Job stress is related to the low quality of life, job burnout, increasing the risk of accidents and work–related injuries and cause job change and early retirement of employees. This study aimed to evaluate employees’ job stress in an industry as well as to assess its relationship by person...

There has been an increasing concern about inactive drivers who would easily lead to road accidents and fatalities once return to driving. This study investigated the re-usability of traffic signs for inactive drivers with consideration of driver factors and cognitive sign features. Fifty-seven Hong Kong Chinese, who possessed a full driving license but had not driven for an extended period, co...

About 70% of children and adolescents entering the boarding schools came from the families problematic on the alcoholism and drug addiction where they were subject of the physical and psychological assault. The family ill-being, neglect, lack of consideration for children from the part of their hard drinking parents resulted into the development of mental pathology and pathology of other organs...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS We hypothesized that personal characteristics of residents may affect how well competency is attained in a surgical residency. To this end, we examined two concepts of global trait emotional intelligence and learner autonomy profile and their factor relationship with competency outcomes in a residency program in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. STUDY DESIGN A cohort...

One hundred ten litigants who were suing for emotional damages were assessed by the author for medical-legal reasons. Most of the plaintiffs were involved in motor vehicle accidents and suffered from "whiplash" injuries. Semi-structured interviews were used to reach criteria based on DSM-III-R diagnoses. Requests for consultation, on average, came 25 months after the patient's accident. Approxi...

This study examined the applicability of broader thematic categories for coding personal strivings, and tested the relationship between both dimensions and contents of personal goals and life satisfaction. We also applied the psychosocial theory of Erikson (1963) to evaluate personal goals. These issues were explored on a Hungarian youth sample of 48 subjects (mean age 23.4). Participants gener...

Objectives To measure student nurses’ attitudes toward health and identify the influence of demographic characteristics and psychological wellbeing on these attitudes. Design A cross‐sectional survey between April and June 2006. Setting An Australian University in South‐East Queensland. Subjects 369 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing, Pre‐Registration Program. Main outcome measures At...