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Title: Do video games reduce or induce stress? The effect of challenge and threat appraisals on stress and aggression when playing violent and nonviolent video games
Author: Porter, Anne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Video game players report using video games for stress reduction, but previous studies have found mixed results when examining stress and video games, and fail to comprehensively measure all relevant psychological, emotional, and physiological str...

Title: Re-examining the positive conscientiousness-performance relationship: The role of neuroticism and stress
Author: Dunn, Alexandra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Personality
Description: This study adds to the growing body of research on the interactive effects of personality traits. The researcher hypothesized that the relationship between conscientiousness and task performance would be weaker for individuals high in neuroticism....

Title: Perceived Work Ability for Employees with Mental Illness: The Roles of Symptom Severity, Anticipated Discrimination, and Internalized Stigma
Author: Bardwell, Tarya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Working adults with mental illness must navigate stigma and impairment in the workplace, and these factors may affect their perceived ability to continue working in their current job. Using appraisal theory and the why try model, the current study...

Title: Contributions of Documentation Status, Spiritual Coping, and Acculturation on the Stress Level of Adult Hispanic Immigrants
Author: Benitez, Elba
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Counseling psychology, Mental health
Description: ABSTRACTELBA CAROLINA BENITEZ. Contributions of Documentation Status, Spiritual Coping, and Acculturation on the Stress Level of Adult Hispanic Immigrants(Under the direction of DR. PHYLLIS POST)Nearly 35% of the more than 55 million Hispanics who...

Title: Antecedents in Building Resilience: Extending Conservation of Resources Theory
Author: Werntz Coatman, Lindamarie
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial
Description: Stress in the workplace is a pertinent factor influencing people’s lives and performance at work. Stress creates a cost to employees through their psychological and physical well-being, and it has financial consequences for organizations. One pers...

Title: MOVEMENT AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR STRESS
Author: Ridenhour, Morgan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study explores the use of non-strenuous movement, such as stretching and fidgeting, as a coping mechanism for stress. Prominent sources such as American Psychological Association (APA) recommend the use of movement to manage stress (APA, 2017...

Title: EXPLORING PERPETUATING FACTORS BY WHICH PERCEIVED STRESS CONTRIBUTES TO POOR SLEEP QUALITY: THE ROLE OF PRE-SLEEP AROUSAL, BEHAVIORS, AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
Author: Mason, Christine
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: Young adults are the fasting growing but least understood at-risk group reporting poor sleep. Stress and developmental processes related to the transition to college may negatively alter sleep quality and sleep patterns that continue into adulthoo...

Title: Examining interactions of perfectionism and dispositional mindfulness on perceived stress
Author: Papay, Kimberly
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Personality
Description: The main purpose of the study was to examine if perfectionism (both evaluative concerns perfectionism (ECP) and personal strivings perfectionism (PSP)) and dispositional mindfulness interact to predict perceived stress. Regression analyses indicat...

Title: External Resources: Do Resilient Employees Use of External Resources Influence Perceptions of Their Job?
Author: Clayton, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Conservation of Resources Theory (COR) argues that both psychological and external factors serve as resources to buffer the effects of stress, which in turn influence people’s perception of their work environments. Risk and Resilience Theory (RRT)...

Title: Doctoral Students' Stress and Coping Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
Author: Elton, Kira
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: The coronavirus pandemic had a profound change to daily life. While the pandemic could be considered a stressful event within its own right, graduate school is also known to induce stress; this stress occurs due to time constraints, financial stra...

Title: A meta-analysis of the roles and resources model of support giving's health effects
Author: LaPorte, Thomas
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology, Psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Giving social support is lauded in society and regarded as contributing to the development and maintenance of social relationships, but research has typically focused on the benefits of receiving such support and the costs of giving. An emerging l...

Title: AN EXAMINATION OF THE PERCEIVED RESOURCES AND DEMANDS OF NORTH CAROLINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Author: Helf, James
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, School management and organization
Description: School administrators are faced with an increased number of responsibilities and challenges. In order to effectively create and maintain effective schools, educational leaders must provide principals with the proper tools. The purpose of this stud...

Title: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Stress, Coping, and Retention among Novice Teachers
Author: Fisher, Molly
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: There are many factors that lead to stress and burnout of teachers that ultimately result in up to half of teachers leaving the profession before their sixth year of experience. This study is a mixed-method approach to the problem that began with ...

Title: The Development Of A Comparative Appraisal Of Perceived Resources And Demands For Clergy
Author: Jackson-Jordan, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Adult education
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop the Comparative Appraisal of perceived Resources and Demands for Clergy (CARD-C), which is used for appraising perceived stress for clergy persons. An appraisal-based definition of stress was derived from t...

Title: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPARATIVE APPRAISAL OF PERCEIVED RESOURCES AND DEMANDS FOR PRINCIPALS
Author: Maerz, Drew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Educational tests and measurements, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop the Comparative Appraisal of perceived Resources and Demands for Principals (CARD-P), which is used for appraising perceived stress in the elementary school principalship. An appraisal-based definition of s...

Title: Stress, burnout, and work-family conflict among police officers: The moderating effect of emotion regulation strategies
Author: Toth, Allison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Police officers have an incredibly stressful and emotionally laborious job, which can lead to burnout and issues with their work on the clock spilling over and influencing their time with their family off the clock (i.e. work-family conflict). Due...

Title: Stress, Sleep, Inflammation, and Cognitive Ability
Author: Hirsch, Sophie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Psychological stress, defined as a relationship between the person and their socioenvironmental context that is appraised as exhausting the resources of a person, has long been shown to affect concurrent and long-term health outcomes. Previous res...

Title: The influence of emotion regulation on psychological distress and physiological functioning following a romantic breakup
Author: Roos, Lydia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Psychophysiology
Description: Being in a romantic relationship confers better psychological wellbeing and physical health than being single; however, relationship dissolution can be psychologically stressful, and separation and divorce have been linked to an array of poor heal...