{"title":"Factors influencing first-year medical students' perceptions of stress.","authors":"J M Murphy, C C Nadelson, M T Notman","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936055","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This preliminary report from an ongoing longitudinal study of students at both Tufts and Harvard medical schools examined the relationship between premedical school demographic and stress variables and the numbers and types of stresses reported by students in open-ended interviews conducted during their first year of medical school. Analyses showed that the general categories of \"medical school stresses\" and \"social stresses related to medical school\" accounted for about two-thirds of the total number of stresses mentioned. The overall distributions of stresses across general categories were remarkably similar in all student groups studied, although significant differences were found between students from different background groups on a number of the specific types of stress. No significant differences were found between groups as to those reporting a high total number of stresses. There did appear to be differences in the degree to which students felt affected by the stresses they reported, suggesting the need for additional data on the meanings of different stresses for different students and the ways in which they cope with them.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 4","pages":"165-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17628454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beliefs and fears underlying type A behavior: what makes Sammy run--so fast and aggressively?","authors":"R J Burke","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Price has proposed that Type A behavior allows individuals to cope with fears and anxieties engendered by beliefs they develop about their environment through socialization. Three investigations tested her cognitive social learning model of Type A behavior by developing measures of beliefs and fears, and validating them against a standardized Type A measure, the Jenkins Activity Survey (two studies), and measures of Time Urgency, Hostility, Time for Reverie and Self-Centeredness (one study). Respondents provided data by completing questionnaires. Three beliefs and four fears were assessed. Findings indicated that the measures of beliefs and fears had desirable psychometric properties and produced modest relationships with the JAS, Time Urgency and Hostility. Future research directions and practical implications are offered.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 4","pages":"174-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17628455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biochemical and mood responses predictive of stressful diving performance.","authors":"R J Biersner, W B McHugh, R H Rahe","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934958","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Measures of six self-reported moods (assessed using the Mood Questionnaire), serum cholesterol levels, and serum uric acid (SUA) levels were obtained from 26 divers attending the Saturation Diver Training (SDT) course, the most sophisticated and arduous diving course offered by the U.S. Navy. These measures were correlated with various types of diving activity that occurred during the seven years following graduation from the SDT course. Multiple regression analyses showed that two moods, Fear and Happiness, from the Mood Questionnaire, were independently related to years of subsequent diving experience, while mood Fear and cholesterol levels were associated with total number of dives made during this period. The number of dives made to depths of over 100 feet of sea water was related independently to cholesterol levels and mood Happiness. A high frequency of saturation diving (i.e., dives that last for periods in excess of 12 hours) was found for divers with high SUA levels and low scores on mood Fear. Variations in significant mood and biochemical measures across the different types of diving criteria are discussed in terms of the level of stress involved, prior diving experience, psychological traits including perceived control and achievement motivation, and attitudes formed toward diving during the SDT course.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 1","pages":"43-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934958","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17528812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professional burnout and its relation to job characteristics, satisfaction, and control.","authors":"D McDermott","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934962","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Burnout scores for 104 professionals in the fields of college student personnel, health and mental health, administration and miscellaneous other professionals were correlated with ratings on 13 job characteristics, and ratings of satisfaction with, and control over, these characteristics. Results indicate significant positive correlations between the burnout scores and 10 of the 13 job characteristics. Significant positive correlations were found for burnout and all 13 items of job satisfaction. Significant negative correlations were found for 6 of the items where control was rated. Demographic variables of age, sex, marital status, employment status of spouse, dependents, number of hours worked, and being on call showed no significant correlations with burnout. Recommendations are made for continued research and theory building which take into account the concept of control over one's work environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 2","pages":"79-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934962","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17548255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coping with cancer among holocaust survivors in Israel: an exploratory study.","authors":"L Baider, M Sarell","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934965","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The psychosocial coping potential of Israeli cancer patients who are concentration camp survivors was found to be consistently lower than that of similar cancer patients without camp experience. \"The survivor's syndrome\" is referred to as explaining the lower coping levels of patients for whom cancer diagnosis reactivates past traumas. The need for early identification and treatment of these highly vulnerable patients is emphasized.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 3","pages":"121-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934965","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17575907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychosocial stress, symptoms, and anxiety of male and female teachers in Greece.","authors":"J Georgas, E Giakoumaki","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936059","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychosocial stress as measured by a Greek adaptation of the Schedule of Recent Experiences (SRE) constructed by Holmes and Rahe was studied in relation to symptoms, manifest anxiety, visits to doctor, and health concerns using 129 male and female Greek elementary school teachers. Psychosocial stress was related to number of symptoms and to level of manifest anxiety only with women. Although no sex differences were found in average psychosocial ratings, males and females reported different stressful life events. Females reported more symptoms than males, and had higher manifest anxiety. Relationships of sex differences to cultural norms are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 4","pages":"191-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17626839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E Heidbreder, A Ziegler, K Schafferhans, A Heidland, W Grüninger
{"title":"Psychomental stress in tetraplegic man: dissociation in autonomic variables and emotional responsiveness.","authors":"E Heidbreder, A Ziegler, K Schafferhans, A Heidland, W Grüninger","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936054","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tetraplegic patients with physiologically complete cervical spinal cord transsection are classic ablation models of sympathetic denervation. Therefore this study was conducted to investigate the hemodynamic response (blood pressure, cardiac rate) and the plasma catecholamine (adrenaline, noradrenaline) release induced by a standardized psychomental stress model (sonic confuser). Attention was focussed on subjective evaluation of stress experience in spinal man. During psychomental stress, typical pressure reaction was not observed, cardiac rate was elevated insignificantly, and catecholamine release was diminished. The subjective estimates of stress experience, however, did not differ from those of the control group. It appears that psychomental stress in sympathectomized man is not extinguished despite abolished peripheral autonomic feedback modifying the state of the central nervous system. Cognitive processes and cortical arousal seem to be the initial and important steps of emotional experience and they are independent from peripheral autonomic processes. These results lend support to the centralistic view of emotions and the importance of cognitive factors in emotional responsiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 4","pages":"157-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9936054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17628453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marital separation and health: stress and intervention.","authors":"D Wertlieb, S Budman, A Demby, M Randall","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934955","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marital separation is a stressful life event implicated in much current thinking and practice in mental health, health psychology and psychosomatic medicine. This study examines marital separation in a controlled, prospective design. The participants were 314 Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) subscribers followed over a two year period. Marital separation was experienced by 127 of these participants early in the two-year study period. A stratified random half of these separated individuals participated in a short-term psychoeducational group intervention, \"Seminars for the Separated.\" Measures of psychosocial adjustment and medical utilization were analyzed to describe correlates of marital separation and to evaluate the intervention. Statistically significant increases in medical utilization by people experiencing marital separation were observed in comparisons with married control subjects. Much of this increased utilization occurred in the year surrounding the actual separation and may be accounted for by mental health visits as well as nonmental health contacts with the health plan. The effects of the intervention were not evident until controls for baseline levels of medical utilization were introduced into the multivariate analysis. Even then, intervention effects were slight. Methodological problems and implications for further study are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"10 1","pages":"18-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1984.9934955","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17528049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability of the MYTH scale in assessing type A behavior in preschool children.","authors":"J L Murray, J G Bruhn","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1983.9935027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1983.9935027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The reliability of the Matthews Youth Test for Health (MYTH) scale in assessing Type A behavior patterns among four-year-old children was evaluated, as was the degree of association between the behavior pattern of teachers and their ratings of the children. The Pearson product-moment correlations for the total MYTH scores and for the competitiveness and the impatience/aggression subscale scores ranged from .68 to .73 over a test-retest interval of three months. The teachers completed the Jenkins Activity Survey. No significant correlations were found between the behavior patterns of the teachers and their ratings of the children. The high degree of reliability that was found in test-retest scores on the MYTH was similar to that found in other studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"9 4","pages":"23-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1983.9935027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17734688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life stress and athletic injury: examination of positive versus negative events and three moderator variables.","authors":"M W Passer, M D Seese","doi":"10.1080/0097840X.1983.9935025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0097840X.1983.9935025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A modified version of the Life Experiences Survey (LES) was used to examine the relationship between positive and negative life change and subsequent athletic injury among 104 collegiate varsity football players drawn from two teams. The findings from Team One indicated that players who incurred a significant time-loss injury had experienced greater negative--but not positive--life changes in the previous twelve months than noninjured players. Further, injured players tended to have higher object loss scores than noninjured players. No between-group differences were found for Team Two. Trait anxiety, competitive trait anxiety, and locus of control were examined as possible moderator variables in the life change--injury relationship, and were found to have no significant effects. While partially supporting past research, the findings indicate that more work on the stress--injury relationship is needed before life change measures can contribute to the assessment of athletes' injury potential.</p>","PeriodicalId":76006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human stress","volume":"9 4","pages":"11-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0097840X.1983.9935025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17735881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}