Stress and burnout are global epidemics that may cause negative consequences for workers organizations. Social of residential child care especially at risk, due to the inherent characteristics their work. Subsequently, this study aimed analyse these professional’s stress, cognitive appraisal, burnout. The sample included 92 social (90.2% female 9.8% male) with ages between 25 64 years old (M = ...

Cognitive appraisal theories (CATs) explain human emotions as a result of the subjective evaluation of events that occur in the environment. Recently, arguments have been put forward that discuss the need for formal descriptions in order to further advance the field of cognitive appraisal theory. Formal descriptions can provide detailed predictions and help to integrate different CATs by provid...

AIM The mechanism of dynamics of depression symptoms after myocardial infarction (MI) during six months was examined with reference to (a) whether the changes in coping strategies mediate the effect of changes in cognitive appraisal on changes in the level of depression, and (b) whether this mediation is moderated by the changes in hope. METHODS Cognitive appraisal (threat/harm, challenge), h...

BACKGROUND The role of cognitive appraisal of the threat of alcohol relapse has received little attention. A previous instrument, the Relapse Situation Appraisal Questionnaire (RSAQ), was developed to assess cocaine users' primary appraisal of the threat of situations posing a high risk for cocaine relapse. The purpose of the present study was to modify the RSAQ in order to measure primary appr...

Cognitive appraisal theory has been used extensively as basis for computational models. Evaluating these models in an objective way is a difficult issue. Further, integration and comparison between appraisal theories is needed in order to advance the development of appraisal theory. In this paper we argue that a good solution is to formally specify structural appraisal theories using a common f...

People often encounter one emotion-triggering event after another. To examine how an emotion experience affects those that follow, the current article draws on the appraisal-tendency framework and cognitive appraisal theories of emotion. The emotional blunting hypothesis predicts that a specific emotion can carry over to blunt the experience of a subsequent emotion when defined by contrasting a...

A human subject experiment was conducted to investigate caffeine’s effect on appraisal and performance of a mental serial subtraction task. Serial subtraction performance data was collected from three treatment groups: placebo, 200 mg caffeine, and 400 mg caffeine. Data were analyzed by average across treatment group and by challenge and threat task appraisal conditions. A cognitive model of th...

People often encounter one emotion-triggering event after another. To examine how an emotion experience affects those that follow, the current article draws on the appraisal-tendency framework and cognitive appraisal theories of emotion. The emotional blunting hypothesis predicts that a specific emotion can carry over to blunt the experience of a subsequent emotion when defined by contrasting a...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics Journal Article How to cite: Allington, Daniel (2005). Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics. Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and D...

Psychosocial stress is a potent activator of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. While neuroendocrine stress responses are essential for the maintenance of homeostasis, evidence suggests that excessive activation of the HPA axis constitutes a risk for disease and psychopathology. The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of cognitive-behavioral stress management train...