Article history: Received 22 July 2015 Received in revised form 20 April 2016 Accepted 25 April 2016 Available online xxxx Interest in the application of mindfulness-based intervention for the treatment of psychological disorders and promotion of wellbeing has grown exponentially in recent years. Mindfulness-based interventions have been found to be beneficial for treatment of various forms of ...

WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED JOB STRESS, JOB SATISFACTION, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES? By Barbara L . Hooper House's Stress Paradigm provided the theoretical framework for this study which examined the relationship between job satisfaction and job stress, and the correlation of job stress with the experience of psychological symptoms in a sample of 32 criti...

Purpose: This study examined the effect of marital communication on cancer coping, health promoting behavior, and subjective happiness in elderly patients.Methods: The participants were 88 older patients with living a spouse for at least one year. Data collected through questionnaire covering general characteristics, communications, analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation, ...

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...

Problem use of video games is an increasing risk behaviour. High exposure of adolescents to video games has been linked to a variety of disorders, but the relationship between problem video game playing and emotional welfare is unknown. The aim of the study is to analyse problem video game playing in a sample of adolescents and to determine whether there are differences between online and offli...

Owner/managers of small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) are an under-researched population in terms of psychological distress and the associated health and economic consequences. Using baseline data from the evaluation of the Business in Mind program, a mental health promotion intervention amongst SME owner/managers, this study investigated: (i) prevalence of high/very high psychological distress,...

In treating individuals with disordered eating (DE) concerns, such as excessive dieting, bingeing, and purging, evidence shows that emotion/behavior regulation plays a principal role in the nature and treatment of DE. Body image flexibility (BIF) is a fairly new concept that reflects adaptive regulation processes in the context of DE. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to investigate ...