The authors examined social capital, self-esteem, popularity, need for accessibility to friends, and stress as gendered predictors of cyber technology use in 149 undergraduates. The authors investigated four kinds of cyber technology use: social networking, texting, internet surfing, and MP3 player listening. Stress was the most consistent predictor of cyber technology use in men (social networ...

BACKGROUND Health care workers are exposed to psychosocial work factors. Autonomy and social support are psychosocial work factors that are related to stress, and are argued to largely result from the psychosocial safety climate within organisations. This study aimed to assess to what extent the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress in health care workers can be explained by a...

This review of literature from multiple disciplines argues that the Internet is useful both in communicating support, and in the rapid reestablishment of socially supportive peer networks, when an individual’s support needs change following a transition. We extend prior typologies of transition by identifying common features and outcomes of transition. We subsequently describe how transition in...

Stress and social isolation are well-known risk factors for psychopathology. However, more research is needed as to the physiological mechanisms by which social support buffers the impacts of stress. Research in animal models suggests important roles for progesterone (P) and its product, the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone (ALLO), in stress and psychopathology. These hormones are produced ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to measure the level of vicarious trauma, posttraumatic growth (PTG), and other factors affecting PTG among child protective service workers. METHODS We include posttraumatic stress, social support, stress coping, and demographic data as independent variables. Data was collected from 255 full-time social workers from 43 child protective agencies as acomplete...

This research focus on the temporal path analysis of learning stress, test anxiety, peer stress (classmate relatedness), teacher relatedness, autonomy, and self-regulative performance in junior high school. Owing to the processes of self-determination always combines several negotiations with the interactive perceptions of personal experiences and social cognition network. However, the inexperi...

OBJECTIVE To study infertility-related stress among men and women and to examine its relationship with the level of perceived social support. MATERIAL AND METHOD The Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI) and the Personal Resource Questionnaire (PRQ) were translated into Thai and used to assess the level of infertility-related stress and perceived social support, respectively, in 238 infertile sub...

This study examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits, social support and traumatic stress symptoms in the context of secondary exposure to traumatic life events. Moreover, we examine if emotional and informational social support moderate the relation between personality traits and all the three dimensions of traumatic stress – intrusions, avoidance, and arousal. A sample...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to determine whether exposure to stress or elevated corticosterone concentrations in the days preceding cerebral ischemia exacerbates ischemic injury as assessed by histological and behavioral outcomes. METHODS For 7 consecutive days, male C57/BL6 mice were exposed to social stress for 45 minutes or injected with 1 mg/kg corticostero...

Stress remains a significant social problem for individuals in modern societies. This paper presents a machine learning approach for the automatic detection of stress of people in a social situation by combining two sensor systems that capture physiological and social responses. We compare the performance using different classifiers including support vector machine, AdaBoost, and [Formula: see ...