Not exact matches
Mental health problems don't need to rise to the
level of clinical significance to detract
from high quality leadership, but the negative effects would likely be worse if we were considering clinical diagnoses
of depression,
anxiety, sleep problems or narcissism.
A recent study by University
of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School
of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng
from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that
high levels of emotional exhaustion that come
from workplace
anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.
The dirty dozen, a list
of the produce with the
highest levels of pesticides, is often discussed in a way that promotes food fear and
anxiety, and scares people
from eating vegetables.
«Students were reporting
high levels of anxiety, especially
from school,» Daniels said.
They can address the ever - increasing
levels of anxiety that are more consistently being found in students ranging
from the early stages
of elementary school to seniors in
high school.
The researchers recruited the participating mothers
from a low - resource and
high - stress urban setting, with many reporting
high -
levels of depression,
anxiety, worry, and stress.
In experiments performed with actual officers during a video simulation
of a confrontation, a team
from Vrije University Amsterdam found that shooting accuracy, arrest and self - defense skills and communication all decreased when stress
levels are
high, and that officers fired more often in a
high -
anxiety situation on suspects that had already surrendered.
They found the
high levels of emotional exhaustion that come
from workplace
anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.
Statistics about
anxiety in the modern workplace are alarming, with one survey showing 41 per cent
of employees
from a range
of industries reporting
high levels of anxiety in the workplace.
The aim
of the study, led by PhD student, Helen Rockliff,
from the University
of Bristol's School
of Clinical Sciences, was to find out what types
of coping strategies, social circumstances and personality traits — called psychosocial factors — help people through IVF treatment, and which types are linked to especially
high stress
levels, and can lead to depression and
anxiety disorders.
«To some degree, there is an optimal
level of anxiety that is going to benefit your memory, but we know
from other research that
high levels of anxiety can cause people to reach a tipping point, which impacts their memories and performance.»
The move promises to raise the already
high anxiety level among publishers about the economics
of digital publishing and could offer authors a way to earn more profits
from their works than they do under the traditional system.
For example, on a smaller scale, if a prospective dog owner is away
from home working for 8 hours a day, it would not be good for them to adopt a breed that has a history
of high levels of separation
anxiety and may be destructive while they are gone.
While it may not be readily apparent
from an outsider's perspective, a career in technical support can involve
high levels of stress and
anxiety.
The study, which examined data
from 168 undergraduate students, found that those who had
high levels of attachment
anxiety were more likely to have experienced phantom ringing and phantom notifications than their more laid - back counterparts, especially if they were expecting an important call or message.
Results Adolescents maltreated early in life were absent
from school more than 1.5 as many days, were less likely to anticipate attending college compared with nonmaltreated adolescents, and had
levels of aggression,
anxiety / depression, dissociation, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, social problems, thought problems, and social withdrawal that were on average more than three quarters
of an SD
higher than those
of their nonmaltreated counterparts.
Adolescents with
high levels of anxiety and depression symptoms had increased risk
of receiving medical benefits
from age 20 to 29.
The items in each subscale were on a four - point scale ranging
from «strongly disagree» (1) to «strongly agree» (4) yielding possible scores
from seven to 28, with a
higher score indicating a greater
level of general
anxiety and depression.
High parental
levels of anxiety and depression symptoms were associated with an increased risk
of medical benefit receipt
from age 20 to 29 in adolescent offspring.
Similarly, Chronis - Tuscano et al. 15 reported four-fold increased odds
of a lifetime diagnosis
of social
anxiety disorder among adolescents with consistently
high levels of behavioural inhibition
from ages 1 to 7.
It seems that when we are chronically under significant pressure and our brains are asked to cope with
high levels of stress, the tension and
anxiety we feel detracts
from our ability to focus — we become more distractible and the capacity
of our short - term memory is reduced.
Australian research indicates that between four per cent and 14 per cent
of children aged
from 18 months to three years have mental health problems such as
anxiety, social withdrawal and
high levels of aggression.
The net result
from such
high conflict in divorce is children with emotional and behavioral problems (acting out), with
levels of anxiety and depression (learned helplessness) that warrant professional intervention.
Carrying
high levels of stress is the main cause
of anxiety, and
from there it becomes an everyday lifestyle.
Regarding the psychological wellbeing
of the young adults, those
from female - headed households showed lower
levels of anxiety, depression, hostility and problematic alcohol use than their counterparts
from traditional families, and
higher levels of self - esteem, indicating more positive psychological adjustment among young adults who had grown up in solo and lesbian mother homes, with no difference between the two.
People who experienced separations
from significant others, especially early in life, may develop
high levels of death
anxiety as death is experienced as the ultimate separation
from a close person.
In other words, older adults who are able to rapidly end negative moods may be unique
from their age peers as well as
from younger adults in having especially low
levels of trait
anxiety, depressive symptoms, neuroticism, and pessimism and
higher levels of optimism.
Although not all
of our clients have a diagnosis, some
of the many labels that have benefitted
from our services include: ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders -
Levels 1 and 2,
High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, learning disabilities, sensory dysregulation, executive dysfunction, twice - exceptional, gifted and talented, social
anxiety, socially phobic, expressive - receptive language issues, specific language impairment, traumatic brain injury, Tourette's Syndrome, PDD - NOS, Dysgraphia, etc
General indices regarding mental health
of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children
from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers
of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much
higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors
of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that
of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants
of mothers with low
levels of depression and
anxiety were more likely to recover
from sleep problems than those with
high levels of depression and
anxiety after controlling for the influence
of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions
of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development
of beneficial parent - child interactions.
Consistent with previous studies, we found that (a) being less prosocial and more physically aggressive at age 10 was characteristic
of those children with the
high rejection trajectory; (b) being less attractive was related to
higher peer rejection
from age 10 to 14; and (c) boys with a
high rejection trajectory showed
high levels of delinquency and
anxiety - depression and low
levels of academic aspiration at age 16 — 17, whereas girls with a
high rejection trajectory showed low
levels of academic aspiration and social competence at age 16 — 17.
We expected that
high levels and
high variability
of negative emotions (anger,
anxiety, and sadness), predict the stability
of adolescents»
anxiety, depression, and aggressive behavior scores
from age 13 to age 14, in non-specific ways, thereby extending earlier cross-sectional findings (Silk et al. 2003).