The purpose of the study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of a brief new questionnaire for assessing sources of work -
related psychosocial stress.
Potential contribution of work -
related psychosocial stress to the development of cardiovascular disease and type II diabetes: a brief review
Not exact matches
The breastfeeding research lists challenges to early and successful breastfeeding as unscheduled cesarean birth,
psychosocial stress, and pain
related to labor and birth.
Psychosocial stress is one of the key factors leading to illness -
related absences from work.
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work; «Calculating the cost of work -
related stress and
psychosocial risks», page 7, section 2.1.
The adult age -
related clinical syndrome of growth hormone deficiency includes increased fat mass, decreased muscle mass and strength, decreased bone density, elevated lipids, insulin resistance, decreased
psychosocial well - being and depression, fatigue, increased social isolation, inability to handle
stress, cardiovascular disease, memory decline, overall deterioration in quality of life, frailty, thin dry skin, increased wrinkles, and diminished exercise tolerance.
In this document they have identified the six key
psychosocial risk factors which can cause work ‑
related stress.
Some recent examples include using Facebook to predict riots, comparing the use of Facebook with body image concern in adolescent girls and investigating whether Facebook can lower levels of
stress responses, with research suggesting that it may enhance and undermine
psychosocial constructs
related to well - being.
Finally, we analyzed the association between
psychosocial factors at work and occupational
stress, aiming to identify work environment characteristics that might be favoring the presence of symptoms
relating to
stress.
As identified in
stress process models (see example of Pearlin et al9), personal resources moderate the
psychosocial impact or strain
related to caregiving.
Objective To understand why children exposed to adverse
psychosocial experiences are at elevated risk for age -
related disease, such as cardiovascular disease, by testing whether adverse childhood experiences predict enduring abnormalities in
stress - sensitive biological systems, namely, the nervous, immune, and endocrine / metabolic systems.
Caregiver - focused groups were rated as providing skills such as information and support that reduced the negative appraisal of caregiving, decreased uncertainty and lessened hopelessness, while also teaching skills to cope with the
stresses of caregiving.66 This supports suggestions that such groups might give caregivers the chance to openly interact with other caregivers in the absence of their care recipients.57 Moreover, in a systematic review of
psychosocial interventions, group based or otherwise, caregivers listed the most useful aspect of interventions as regular interactions with a professional, providing the chance to openly communicate issues with them, and as a time to talk about feelings and questions
related to cancer.13, 66
Membership in a single - parent family or stepfamily is associated with increased levels of significant behavioral, emotional, and academic problems in children.1, 2 The mechanisms underlying this connection are likely to involve, among other factors, financial adversity, increased
stress directly
related to family transitions, and increased exposure to additional
psychosocial risks.3, 4 Compared with the extensive research base connecting family type (ie, membership in a 2 - parent biological family, stepfamily, or single - parent family) and children's psychological adjustment, little is known about the physical health consequences of membership in diverse family types.
Workload, in particular tight deadlines, too much work and too much pressure or responsibility, a lack of managerial support, organisational changes at work, violence and role uncertainty are identified causes of work -
related stress.1 These factors are antecedents of sickness presenteeism which is mediated by mental and physical health.2 At the individual level, chronic
stress produces long - term deleterious effects in health, namely, cardiovascular diseases, 3 burn - out, anxiety and depression.4 Sickness absence in Europe is associated with
psychosocial work factors.5 The link between work performance,
stress and health poses an important challenge to workers, employers and organisations in general, as
stress should be monitored and mitigation measures implemented accordingly.6
Abstract: This literature review explores women in management and how the
psychosocial factors they face in the workplace affect their job -
related stress level.
The results show associations between work -
related perceived
stress and trapezius muscle activity and rest during standardized simulated computer work, and provide partial empirical support for the hypothesized pathway of
stress induced muscle activity in the association between an adverse
psychosocial work environment and musculoskeletal symptoms in the neck and shoulder.
Women with a prior history of depression or who are facing multiple health -
related or
psychosocial stresses might be especially good candidates for home visits.
Illness - or injury -
related posttraumatic
stress reactions can impair a child's
psychosocial / functional recovery and lead to worse health outcomes.
However, other HIV -
related health factors, traditional background characteristics, and
psychosocial measures (e.g., HIV stigma, parenting
stress, family environment) failed to indicate who was most vulnerable.
The frequencies and percentages of couple -
related and
psychosocial stress variables in the ART and control group women and men are given in Table I.
A review of
psychosocial predictors of infertility -
related stress was published 3 years ago (Gourounti et al., 2010) collating the findings of 19 empirical studies that had explored the relationship between
psychosocial factors and a negative emotional outcome measure (distress,
stress, depression, etc.).
(iii) To examine whether couple -
related (number of children, length of partnership and number of previous partnerships) and
psychosocial stress (SES, stressful life events and depressive symptoms in pregnancy) factors differently predict the quality and change of marital relationships among ART and control groups, we added corresponding two - way interactions into the main effect repeated - measure MANOVAs.
Differences between assisted reproductive technique (ART) and control group women and men in couple -
related and
psychosocial stress factors: percentages and frequencies