This study examined the EFL learners’ Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Critical Reading (CR) ability to identify possible relationships between these two traits. The results show that there exists a significant relationship between students’ EQ and CR and there is no significant difference between females and males’ EQ and CR ability. Finally, only Intrapersonal and Stress Management subscales of...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Nursing students provide health services and their behavior may affect the clinical services that they provide to clients. In addition, Health-promoting behaviors among nursing students may affect the quality of patient education. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between health-promoting behaviors and certain demographic characteristics ...

Results: Nurses reported high stress levels in workload and time pressure subscale, followed by professional and career issues, patient care and interaction, interpersonal relationships and management issues, resource and environmental problems. Fifty subjects (76.9%) suffered from one or more sub-health symptoms. Fatigue was the most common symptom. Occupational stress was positively correlate...

AIM In this study we aimed to investigate the healthy life-style behaviour of Turkish women and establish influencing features. METHODS This descriptive study performed by a questionnaire method was conducted in a primary health care centre, in an urban region in Kayseri, Turkey. Every midwife region belonging to the health care centre was accepted as a cluster, and a sample of 450 women betw...

The Bianchi Stress Questionnaire was built and validated to assess the stress level of hospital nurses. The questionnaire is selfapplicable, composed of 51 items, and divided into six subscales, each receiving a score that ranges from 1 to 7. Subscales are composed of activities that involve nursing care and management. The use of this questionnaire highlights the most stressing subscale for ei...

OBJECTIVE To examine the reliability and validity of the Family Asthma Management System Scale for low-income African-American children with poor asthma control and caregivers under stress. The FAMSS assesses eight aspects of asthma management from a family systems perspective. METHODS Forty-three children, ages 8-13, and caregivers were interviewed with the FAMSS; caregivers completed measur...

background and purpose: medical education is a laborious program which may give negative consequences on the physical and psychological health of medical students. the aims of this study were to evaluate psychological distress among malay medical students and to assess its relationship with their lifestyle. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among 221 malay medical students. psychol...

The relationship between dissociative tendencies, as measured with the Dissociative Experiences Scale and its amnesia, absorption/imaginative involvement, and depersonalization/derealization subscales, and HPA axis functioning was studied in 2 samples of undergraduate students (N = 58 and 67). Acute stress was induced by means of the Trier Social Stress Test. Subjective and physiological stress...