objective: previous studies have shown that menopausal women are more likely to experience depression. however, there are few studies that investigated the cognitive mechanism that may have a role in developing depression in menopausal women. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of life satisfaction in the relation between subjective evaluation of stressors and depres...

this study aims to identify job stressors faculty members of birjand university and its relationship with quality of work life. the research method was descriptive and correlational that using cochran's sampling formula that sample size was determined by actual count, 136 members and simple random sampling was used. job stress (hse) questionnaire with reliability (α= 0.90) and quality of w...

Introduction Extreme events and disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, cause distress and are associated with some people developing mental disorders. Primary stressors inherent in many disasters can include injuries sustained or watching someone die. The literature recognises the distress which primary stressors cause and their association with mental disorders. Secondary stressors such as...

objective: in geriatric practice, the impact of psychological distress on health status has been undermined due to ageism, atypical presentation and less tendency to report negative affect among elderly people. few studies have examined the impact of psychological stressors on medical burden in older adults. the current study has investigated the correlation of psychological distress and burden...

background : clinical work is important part of nursing teaching. nursing education to their responsibilities for teaching and researching are also responsible for integrating the knowledge and practice and offering service to community. complexity of these responsibilities often cause a great deal of psychological stress.   objective : to determine level of stress perceived by nurse educators ...

objective: this study aimed to describe attributors of family stressors which cause rehospitalizations in patients with psychotic disorders. materials and methods: in a cross sectional study (during 2006-7) 203 randomly selected psychiatric readmitted patients with psychotic diagnosis and registered demographic and psychiatric clinical data were included. family stressors as the possible cause ...

background and aim: postpartum period is an exclusive period after birth which can act as a potential stressor and could be accompanied with psychological disorders. social support could play an important role in maternal mental health. considering various stressors and different levels of social support for women, this study aimed to compare postpartum stressors as well as social support level...

Depressive symptoms in Latino youth have been related to both culturally-universal and culturally-based stressors. However, few studies have examined the unique contributions of culturally-based stressors above and beyond other types of stressors. Moreover, no past studies with Latinos have examined the role of culturally-based stressors within a hopelessness model of depressive symptoms, a cog...

this survey was performed on 45 oncology nurses in three hospitals, and cancer institute in tehran. the purpose of this study was investigating the stressors during the care of cancer patients and its importance from the oncology nurses’ view. data gathering tool was a questionnaire with 42 questions, according to research specific goals and had two parts. first part included demographic charac...

Stress alters adaptive behaviours such as learning and memory. Stressors can either enhance or diminish learning, memory formation and/or memory recall. We focus attention here on how environmentally relevant stressors alter learning, memory and forgetting in the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis. Operant conditioning of aerial respiration causes associative learning that may lead to long-term memo...