Previous studies have shown that weight stigma and bullying can have detrimental effects on a person’s psychological well-being. Depression, self-esteem, loneliness, and perceived stress were measured as a result of personal experiences with bullying, specifically concerning weight stigma and weight based bullying, in comparison to other forms of bullying (e.g., being shy, having freckles). Uni...

restless leg syndrome (rls) is a common cause of painful legs. the leg pain of restless leg syndrome typically eases with motion of the legs and becomes more noticeable at rest. stress or emotional upset can make symptoms worse. the purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship of emotional disturbance and quality of life to the severity of rls. using a descriptive-correlational ...

mental stress and daily crises comprise a part of physical and mental threats. perceived stress is a physical and mental threat, as well. perceived stress is a psychological process during which the individual considers his/ her physical and psychological welfare as being threatened. since idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is one of the chronic diseases being able to affect patients' pe...

A significant amount of research has examined the interaction between a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene (5HTTLPR) and stressful life events in the prediction of depression and depressive symptomatology. The results of these studies have produced conflicting evidence, with some studies substantiating a significant interaction and others failing to detect a significant i...

AIMS The aim of the present study was to compare the levels of stress, depression, and intention to leave among clinical nurses employed in different medical units in relation to their demographic characteristics under the National Health Insurance (NHI) System in Taiwan. METHODS Cross-sectional Spearman's correlation, one-way ANOVA with Scheffe post hoc analysis tests, and multiple regressio...

BACKGROUND The Perceived Stress Scale Cohen (J Health Soc Behav 24:385-96, 1983) is a widely and well-established self-report scale measuring perceived stress. However, the German version of the PSS-10 has not yet been validated. Thus, the purposes of this representative study were to psychometrically evaluate the PSS-10, and to provide norm values for the German population. METHODS The PSS-1...

This article examined the moderating role of a central core dimension of emotional intelligence-emotion-regulation ability-in the relationship between perceived stress and indicators of well-being (depression and subjective happiness) in a sample from a community adult population. The relationships for males and females on these dimensions were also compared. Results revealed that emotion-regul...

UNLABELLED This study was conducted to identify the relationship among spiritual well-being, depression and perceived stress. Participants were 518 nursing students located in K province, Korea. DESIGN Exploratory design was used for this study. Data were collected and analyzed by t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients. The results were as follows; 1) Participants' mean scores were S...

The objective of this study was to investigate the mediating role of coping strategies in the relationships between neuroticism, social support, and depression in two groups of adolescents: earthquake group and examination group. Adolescents facing earthquake stress (earthquake group, N=219) completed measures of neuroticism, perceived social support, coping strategies, and self-rating depressi...

patients and methods the study sample included 50 patients with schizophrenia in tuba rehabilitation center in ardabil selected by available sampling method. healthy group participants were selected through cloning by age, gender and marital status of the patient group. the data were collected by the questionnaire of holmes-rahe scale and cohen et al. data were analyzed by multivariate anova (m...