Sentences with phrase «higher levels of stress compared»

They found that parents who were more educated reported significantly higher levels of stress compared to other parents who were less educated.

A research recently found that teenagers often experience higher levels of stress compared to adults.

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Compared with standard offices, employees experienced more uncontrolled interactions, higher levels of stress, and lower levels of concentration and motivation.»

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

Compared with other daily activities, parents do not seem to experience particularly high levels of stress during the time they are taking care of their children.

Using a new kind of MRI measurement, neuroscientists reported higher levels of oxidative stress in patients with schizophrenia, when compared both to healthy individuals and those with bipolar disorder.

Researchers found that people living near Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island exhibited higher levels of stress more than a year after the nuclear plant's 1979 incident compared with individuals outside the area.

His lab recently found that 15 - to 18 - month - old toddlers playing with blocks had higher levels of cortisol, a hormone that regulates stress levels, compared with those watching DVDs.

Ovaries contain high levels of stress hormones compared with other organs, but Sood plans to investigate whether the stressors could still be involved in other types of cancer.

Thus, people with high lifestyle stress will release more cortisol during an intense bout of exercise as compared with someone who has a lower stress level.

A 2014 study published in Human Reproduction looked at about 400 couples over a 12 - month span and found that women who had the highest levels of alpha - amylase, a stress biomarker, had twice the risk of being infertile compared to those with the lowest levels.

In another study, mice given a Lactobacillus strain cruised through a maze that normally created high anxiety and showed lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol compared to their probiotic - deprived counterparts.

Those with high levels of chronic stress experienced less arousal compared to those with lower stress levels (16).

Forty - one per cent of teachers report high levels of occupational stress compared with 31 per cent of people in nursing, 29 per cent in managerial jobs and 27 per cent in professional and support management occupations.

Despite high educational levels, the United States also reflects high levels of economic inequity and social stress compared to the other nations.

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.

Symptoms of distress, depression, anxiety and stress were significantly higher and levels of well - being were significantly lower in trainees compared with consultants, and this was not accounted for by differences in sociodemographic variables.

One study directly assessed the brain functioning of children in foster care using the popular method of examining levels of cortisol, the hormone produced in response to stress in humans.25, 26 Children who are exposed to high levels of stress show unusual patterns of cortisol production.27 Foster children exhibited unusually decreased or elevated levels of cortisol compared to children reared by their biological parents.28 Such findings are consistent with the literature, which points to the importance of the parent - child relationship in buffering the stress responses of children.

Understanding the value of how similar backgrounds, traits, and healthy interactional processes can increase the stability of a marriage is important for at least two reasons: First, because low - resource families tend to experience higher levels of stresses and strains compared to high - resource families, they are particularly vulnerable to negative interactional processes that can disrupt functional family patterns and marital relationships (Harris et al. 2012; Schramm et al. 2011).

As for ODD, studies have shown, as early as preschool age, that, compared to children with low levels of CU traits and ODD, those with higher levels of CU traits have more severe ODD problems, showing deficits in processing emotional stimuli, such as fearful faces, having lower levels of fearfulness and anxiety, manifesting insensitivity to punishment and displaying physiological hypoarousal, such as low stress reaction — lower heart rate at rest and during reactivity to emotional stimuli (Fanti, 2016).

Naskovska and Belevska from their research conclude that the parenting stress in parents of children with autism is signifycantly higher compared with the parents of children with typical development, and in all of the three domains that measure the overall level of stress, the parents of children with autism scored significantly higher levels of stress (12).

Children with ASD perceive higher levels of stress and a poorer ability to cope with stress compared to children without ASD (Browning et al. 2009).

Studies which compare the stress scores between parents of children with ASD contrasted with parents of children with other disability, offer as explanation for the higher levels of stress in parents of children with ASD, differences in the behavior problems, aggression, obsessive - compulsive rituals, sleep problems, or the externalizing aspects which have major influence on the family.